Petals of a Daisy

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Step by step down the longest stairs she ever climbed
to her Daddy's arms
Reaching for the sky, she starts to fall and then she flies
Safe from harm
He spins her round and round, the world is color upside down
and Daddy laughs
He stumbles to the door, brings the bottle and starts to pour
And drops the glass

He drinks alone inside the house now
In darkened rooms where no one knows
While the baby's learning how to walk
and learning how to talk, "Daddy, please come out and play..."
The petals of a daisy say he loves me, he loves me not

Day by day in the silence of her afternoons
She plays a game
Guessing the secret rules to unlock her Daddy's moods
Was she to blame?
But as the years pass by she quit the habit of asking why
and what went wrong
Sometimes a drink would help her to pretend she was someone else
and that she belonged

She drinks alone inside the house now
In darkened rooms where no one knows
Writing dreams upon a page
Birds inside a cage, wings never used can't fly away
The petals of a daisy say he loves me
The petals of a daisy say he loves me not
The petals of a daisy say he loves me.......

vocal, guitar: Les Sampou
soprano sax: Scott Gilman
piano: Janet Hood
fretless bass: Tim Archibald

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