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lyrics

THE SECOND TIME AROUND

When we got to the airport, Mama asked “Do you know what you’re doing?”
I wish that she’d told me how God laughs when we make plans.
Man will build his towers and one breath will take them down
We used to sit and talk for hours, using that long-distance phone call plan.

Now I have worked out this is true:
Everything is better the second time around,
Everything is better the second time around.

Could never have imagined I’d be standing before you today,
About to say my wedding vows and start all over again.
We are the flowers that grow out of line,
Got a second bite of the apple and it’s sweeter this time.

Now I have worked out this is true:
Everything is better the second time around,
Everything is better the second time around.

Ah-----ha
Ah-----ha
Everything is...
Everything is...
Everything is better the second time around
Everything is better the second time around
Ah-----ha
Ah-----ha
Ah-----ha
Ah-----ha
Ah-----ha.

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from You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea, released September 30, 2020

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Natalie D-Napoleon Santa Barbara, California

Natalie D-Napoleon is an Australian-American singer-songwriter and poet who formed a US-based trio with Kenny Edwards (Linda Ronstadt) and Dan Phillips. Natalie’s latest album, You Wanted to Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea, was recorded with one mic in a hundred year old chapel and features Phillips along with James Connolly (Van Dyke Parkes) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams). ... more

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