Five Days in May
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Song Notes:
"This was prompted by something that our soundman Kenny did when we went to Australia and New Zealand... and we were on a beach in New Zealand, all of us very conscious of the fact that we were extremely far away from civilization. We were on this beautiful black beach (black volcanic sand), and Kenny wrote his wife's name in the sand. That was the first time I'd seen him do that and he said that was one of the things he did, just ritualistically, wherever he was, on any beach... he wrote his wife's name in the sand. It was his way of commemorating and acknowledging the connection to his wife. I thought that was really romantic... a really beautiful thing to do, so I stole that and wrote the story of how I met my wife and used that as a detail to sort of acknowledge that when you meet somebody that you are very connected to... it feels automatically like you've known them before, that you've known them forever. That's the crux of that song - those two details." - Jim Cuddy
Lyrics
They met in a hurricane
Standing in the shelter out of the rain
She tucked a note into his hand
Later on they took his car
Drove on down where the beaches are
He wrote her name in the sand
Never even let go of her hand
Somehow they stayed that way
For those 5 days in May
Made all the stars around them shine
Funny how you can look in vain
Living on nerves and such sweet pain
The loneliness that cuts so fine
To find the face you've seen a thousand times
Sometimes the world begins
To set you up on your feet again
It wipes the tears from your eyes
How will you ever know
The way that circumstances go
Always going to hit you by surprise
I know my past
You were there
In everything I've done
You are the one
Looking back it's hard to tell
Why they stood while others fell
Spend your life working it out
All I know is one cloudy day
They both just ran away
Rain on the windshield heading South
She loved the lines around his mouth
Sometimes the world begins
To set you up on your feet again
It wipes the tears from your eyes
How will you ever know
The way that circumstances go
Always going to hit you by surprise
I know my past
You were there
In everything I've done
You are the one
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