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Iced Tea

from Beautiful World by Neil Okeson

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Iced tea

They would watch the sun go down
They would watch the planes fly over
They would swat mosquitos off
In the backyard of the house at Andover

They would have instant ice tea
She smoked Salems, he smoked Luckys,
the lawn chairs were all from Sears
In the backyard in the summer in the evening

And it was lovely, all the stars you could see
And the fireflies were magical out by the old pine trees
And the neighbors would come by and shoot the breeze
They were surely getting very buzzed
On that way-too-sweet iced tea.

Who would see the very first star?
Every 10 minuets, psssst! more bug spray
the phone rang in the kitchen back then
but they let it ring to sit together.

And they were happy, done pulling all the weeds.
from the garden were fresh tomatoes, asparagus and peas.
and the family would laugh and joke and tease.
We had this old hand-crank ice crusher, and still yet more iced tea.

That was very long ago
They sold the house and moved to Carolina
Now I watch the sun go down
And I'm missing them
At the long days end
In our old backyard
in the evening.

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from Beautiful World, released October 24, 2015

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Neil Okeson New York, New York

Neil Okeson is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and composer whose compositions reflect his urban homestead and his upstate New York studio; songs that live in a real world – one full of wonder, love, and even some human sadness. Neil composes music for film as well as writing and performing what he calls ‘contemporary protest music’. He can be found gigging the the NYC metro area. ... more

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