Shosha (pronounced Sasha) Capps from Davis, CA should appear in the dictionary next to the definition of ‘Raw Talent’. Vocals + guitar. Pure and simple. You just can’t beat songwriting that’s this honest and creative. Here’s why:
How We Go
LyricsHalf-way round the world from you,
Folded up inside my room
I won’t be home for Christmas so you’ll have to send my presents to me
Half-way round the world from you,
Folded up inside my room
I won’t be home for Christmas
So you’ll have to send my presents to the moon.
I walk in different circles now.
I hold the things I love so high above the ground
You wouldn’t know me
If you’d been around to hold my hand
When I was 17
You were the first boy in my band
And I’ve learned a lot of things,
Maybe most importantly how to stand up on the moon
Without you.
There are things we say
And things we throw away
There’s a poem that you wrote the day I gave a stranger everything,
A line I never sang out loud that’s tied up in me anyhow,
A kitten in the kitchen that you found in a parking lot,
A field outside your hometown where I lost my faith in God
And all the lines I’ve drawn are softer now
I feel your heartbeat in the ground
The things I never said to you still matter if you want them to,
You know
I walk in different circles now
I say what I believe in front of any crowd
They wouldn’t know me,
Underneath a willow in the rain
Sleeping on the porch swing
While you play piano for your grandmother
And there are notebooks full of paper letters buried in my garden,
A hundred little melodies I should have put my heart in
And I know now that it doesn’t matter how we go
Tell me where and when
And I will love you once again
Without the crying at the end.
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