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the onion

from me & maybe you by margarita obrien

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True story. I passed that onion every day for over a week. Heart in my throat and tears in my eyes, moving forward past all the wackiness that is the bike path and life, a song came to me. What have you seen on the bike path?

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the onion

There's no parking
No parking on campus
So I'll bike in this rain

Down the bike path
By the river
Past the ducks and cranes

You never know
On the bike path
What you might find

There's an onion
On the bike path
That someone's left behind

I get to thinking as I pedal faster
I get to thinking about what you said
I get to wondering what you were after
I get a little lost inside my head

There's an onion
On the bike path
That's what I said

There's an onion
on the bike path
and now it's in my head

I feel the layers peel, I pedal faster
I hear the words you said, I felt the chop
there's no resisting there'll be tears and laughter
Sometimes the memories are hard to stop... now

You're the onion
On the bike path
Just thought you should know... and

I'm the onion
on the bike path
For someone else. It blows.

No one can see my tears be-cause it's raining
No one can know what someone's heart my do
There's a zucchini in a prophylactic
Guess there's no ridding me of thoughts of you!

There's an onion
And a vacuum
On up ahead... and

You're the onion
on the bike path
and you are in my head

If you go biking please se-cure your groceries
If you go loving please se-cure your hearts
If you come bike with me who knows what we'll see
With any complicated end it starts

You're the onion
On the bike path
In case you didn't know... and

I'm the onion
on the bike path
For someone else and so it goes

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from me & maybe you, released February 21, 2020

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Margarita O'Brien Eugene, Oregon

Margarita rediscovered her musical roots when she found a guitar in the house she was housesitting in the rain forest in Costa Rica during rainy season.

Soon after the ukulele stole her heart away.

In a developing style she likes to call quirk-folk, she writes songs of her life, stories for which you may have been an unwitting muse, encouraging words, and the saddest happy songs she can muster. ... more

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