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When You First See the Waves

from Literally Main Street by Cataldo

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lyrics

You were just a kid; you were sixteen.
Driving too fast but you hadn't been drinking.
Wearing a dress with no sleeves.
Wrapped your car around a pole by the fourteenth hole of the Elks Club putting green.

You were probably gonna go to school out of state
if you kept up your grades.
Maybe USC, you wanna live in LA.
But you never set foot on a plane.
Now the world will never know the look on your face
when you first see the waves.

I was just a kid; I was thirteen.
News came on the school intercom and I just started crying.
Barely knew your first and last name.
Probably said hi at most once or twice so it felt strange, it felt wrong, it felt profane.

For me you were right at the edge of my page.
For some you were right at the center, baby.
I was throwing rocks into the depth of their pain
and what a faint little splash they made.
Well don't life just happen on a regular day?
That's when I first heard the waves.

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from Literally Main Street, released September 27, 2019

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Cataldo has been hailed as “the rare kind of artist who’s able to absorb the chaotic world around him and distill it into crystalline song” by American Songwriter. Keepers has been welcomed as “nostalgic, and effortlessly, poetically profound,” by Nylon and “wistful and hopeful and beautiful, a brightly emotive yet understated slow-build." by Stereogum. ... more

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