The Reverent Marigold


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This is About My Leg Hair

C                          F              G
I've had you with me since I first laid coins
        C
On the track
        F                             G
If you leave I'm not sure how it will be
               C
If you do come back
  F                            G
I felt you dance in the summer wind
                   Am
When you were long and thin
F                             G
So if I ask for a handful of space
                          C
Would you still come home again?

C          F                         G
It's the little things you miss when it all changes
C                               F       C
Even if you're the one doing the moving on
          F                       G
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
G          Am              
When your grief lies melting in the sun
Am         F                 G             C
When your grief is just you melting in the sun

When I first met you I had 
Sunlight in my hair
Hot asphalt kissed my feet 
And you were always there
Looking at you now I know 
Those days won't come again
I know we both aren't the boys 
That we were back then

It's the little things you miss when it all changes
When your old leather boots start to rub you sore
When the world shifts and you get rearranged
When it's the last time you close a door
When it's the very last time you close a door

Lyrics

When the dusk was deep you made me feel 
Like I'd be okay
That the moon would rise and I'd 
Smile up at her someday
But we are trees growing hard 
Against a chain link fence
I just had hoped to take you with me 
When I danced in my blue dress

It's the little things you miss when it all changes
When you trade yourself in like an old used car
The world around you shifts and you get rearranged
When you sail your ship so far out past the bar
When the world makes you into what you are

Song Notes

Written in Tucson in early 2021, we had been on HRT less than a year and wanted to shave our legs. We took great pride in our leg hair for a long time, since we were always thinking about it it meant we liked it, right? Shaving it was a very big admission and repudiation of our former gender. This song is also full of double meanings with a childhood crush we had. Reading it again now is somewhat bittersweet, but mostly because time passing is a wild thing!

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