Tall Tales

by Theresa Peterson

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Words and music by Theresa Peterson.
All instruments and vocals by Theresa Peterson.
Recorded and produced by Theresa Peterson at Maple Court Studio in 2020.

For my dad.

lyrics

I walk for miles in your shoes
Trying to make the ground feel like you
Trying to make the sounds you might have made
When you were my age
You were my age

But that chapter's now a mystery
When no one tells a story the truth runs free
And the way it reads may forever be
Up to me
And my memory

If I could only remember
Every word you said
The kings you ate with
The dragons slayed
If I could only tell a tale
As tall as you
I'd tell it to you
And see if it's true

The story of the apple lies with the tree
Cut down for a paper that nobody reads
His sister says it's better left in the past
But who can live like that
Who can live like that

It's not because I never took the time to ask
All the right questions when I had the chance
It's even when you listen the way I did
I was just a kid
I was just a kid

If I could only remember
Every word you said
The kings you ate with
The dragons slayed
If I could only tell a tale
As tall as you
I'd tell it to you
And see if it's true

Anything I
Could ever hope to find
Is in my own mind

Skin and bones and dirty feet
Been walking for years down this nowhere street
Trying to put together what you left to me
I'm still missing a piece
Missing a piece

Searching for it everywhere in mirrors and towns
Pressed up to the windows
Ear down to the ground
But anything that I can ever hope to find
Is in my own mind
There the whole time

Anything I
Could ever hope to find
Is in my own mind

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released May 29, 2020
Credits to Meredith Wilder for use of her mic and gear.

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Theresa Peterson Boulder, Colorado

Her songs have been called "achingly beautiful" with themes that call up our deepest dreams & nostalgias. Peterson is taking her genre of Dreamamericana to the next level this new decade beginning with 5 self recorded & produced singles in 2020 & "No Rules in Montana," a self recorded & produced album in 2021, a tribute to treasures found on an unexpected journey. ... more

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