Groundhog Day
Written sometime around Dec 26th, 1999 by Justin Brock. Category: SongsGroundhog Day is a song I wrote back in the winter of 1999. I recorded this video in our upstairs closet the night of July 2, 2010 – same day as Julie’s funeral.
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video.Groundhog Day
I am creeping from my hole in fear
’cause every time I see my shadow.
Winter’s dark and cold and long I know -
I’ve seen nothing but winter here.
Sure wish I could leave this here,
Turn and hope and it would go away.
Or I could go if it would stay
And not follow me another year,
and another year, and another year
Sometimes I just turn the lights out
So I don’t have to see my shadow
But the world gets bigger in the blackout
And I just wander where my fears go, go, go
Sure would like to let my hair down
Ease my guard and drop my mask
Is it anything to ask
A little room to let my hair down, down, down
Like Rapunzel or something like Samson
Somewhere all is light, all is calm, all is bright,
All who live there cast no shadows
And are followed by no shade of night
Shame is with me like a shadow
Intimate as a midwife is the past
Touching all my nows and futures
Wish I could get clear of her grasp
And birth something bright and pure and shining
Something golden that could stay
And though I die in the labor
I know there’s just no other way
But maybe after one long last winter’s night
I’d wake green as spring in the morning bright
Somewhere all is light, all is calm, all is bright,
All who live there cast no shadows
And are followed by no shade of night