Katie

from Greenway Park by D.M. Franklin Kane

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She ain't ready to reject her precious doll collection
But it seems to me
To be the direction that she's steadily headed in
She ain't ready to accept that anxious boy's affection
Impatiently he waits and stands and
Hopes this is the single-most appropriate time
To ask that dance
That tragic dance
That turns Katie from her toys

She ain't willing to revise her life without a reason
But it seems lately
She swallows excuses without a lot of scrutiny
She ain't trying to devise no counterplot to stop him
He gets so close
She waits and stands and
Hopes this is the single-most appropriate time
To take that dance
That tragic dance
That turns Katie from her toys

She ain't got long to be
She ain't got long to be
She ain't got long to be
'Til she turns thirteen

She ain't gonna be impressed much longer by my presence
And it seems lately
I've subtly slipped from The Model to a novelty
She ain't changing for the best
But what can you do but let her?
And it gets to me
He baits and waits and rubs his hands and
Hopes this is the single-most appropriate time
To ask that dance
That tragic dance
That turns Katie from her toys

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from Greenway Park, released June 9, 1999

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D.M. Franklin Kane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Up, Alive!" is the latest collection of songs from North Carolina's D.M. Franklin Kane.

This is Kane's first full-length release since 2014's "The Hard Truth."

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