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I remember Elyse turned me onto this song and it resurfaced my affinity for Tiger Army. I hadn't listened to anything by them since Maggie dumped me. She was just getting into Tiger Army, Nekromantix, and Thrice and was telling me to check them out, but at the time I was in a down time where everything didn't really appeal to me so much.

I blame Maggie for some of the shit I've grown to like, *cough*Dashboard*cough, but then again I thank her so much for being in my life for as long as she was. I still do miss her, but I've let go and moved on a lot since then. Can't dwell on the past, but just learn from it, right?

Sometimes I wish I could still see her and get to talk to her because we were friends before and I wish we could have stayed friends, but I know that would never happen. Our breakup was that bad.

I don't think she'd like the kind of person I've become since then. I'm way more brash, arrogant, and not as tactful as I used to be, but in a way I've also become a better person. Your first impressions of me would think I was an obnoxious, inconsiderate prick, but would you expect to talk about philosophy, life, religion, or music for hours late into the night with me? A lot of people would be pleasantly surprised, but others would be turned off by this side of me because I seem very "lecturing" and unafraid to enlighten them to the more-than-likely truth of themselves or their world.

the blind will only see if they wish to open their eyes

Tiger Army, "In the Orchard"

Under the evening stars I walk
The smell of cool, damp earth beneath my feet
On a summer night in the orchard

My car is parked down side of the road
Over the mountains the red moon glows
Soon the summer will be over in the orchard

I've been to this place so many times
Down roads and rows of dreams in my mind
I'm walking through the trees in the orchard

Still I see it when I close my eyes
When sleep's about to come after a restless night
I go there in my dreams back to the orchard

The seasons of my life. I watched them pass
The blossoms of spring fall, leaving only winter's naked branch
I remember you and me in the orchard

As the days of youth slip farther from my grasp
Still it haunts me like a song I can't forget
And now frost covers the ground in the orchard

And when the spark of life is almost gone
The seasons slow then stop and I'll see spring no more
It calls me into forever in the orchard

The seasons of my life. I watch them pass
The blossoms of spring fall, leaving only winter's naked branch into forever in the orchard