Gull Lake (in a Peach-Plum Dawn)

from Other People’s Lives by Dan Campbell

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Out on Gull lake, in a peach-plum dawn, in your Edson boat, I’m safe. A summer day, pulling walleye up, then the morning comes. I’m awake and the pain starts in my sternum, then it radiates. When I see your face, made of brick and stone, it’s strong and bold and brave. It starts to fade, and you’re weaker now, cursing these goddamn legs. I know you gotta go, but I was hoping that you’d stay. Hoping you’d stay. Hoping you’d stay. At Erin Ridge, where I’d come from school when I was faking sick. You’d take me in. When the world got dark, you let me be a kid, and I know you couldn’t stay, but I really wish you did. I wish you did. I wish you did. You told me not to get old. You felt the weight in your bones. I knew you needed to go,
but I felt so alone. You told me not to get old. Watching your light go out slow, with a lump in my throat. Wish we were back on your boat. You told me not to get old. You told me not to get old.

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from Other People’s Lives, released November 19, 2021

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Dan Campbell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dan Campbell is a storyteller moonlighting as a songwriter and this is his first time releasing music under his own name. You might know him from his work in The Wonder Years or Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties. This is him by himself, mostly. Some friends helped. They were kind to do so and they added a lot of depth to these songs ... more

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