Raincoat

from Virginia Boy by Robert Shelton

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lyrics

Oh a raincoat of many colors taught me to see the sky
Said: "Look up boy - all the bigs beautifuls and brights"
Those are the colors you'll have to paint with for the most
Of your life.

Beauty of all sum, swimming through my mind
Would you leak from my pen - how I want to feel
Alive like the great writers of all these books and
Songs. Oh, let me have that meaning
To at least someone.

But, I have no answers. I have no cures.
Let me write of heroes who endure
All of these love challenges. But, one day
Perhaps, I could write something, something
That could last.

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from Virginia Boy, released January 7, 2017
Mixed by Mike Moxham

Violin - Isabella Gorman
Piano - Lucas Brown
Bass and Guitar - Robert Shelton

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Robert Shelton Charlottesville, Virginia

Robert Shelton is a songwriter based out of Charlottesville Virginia who now resides in Blacksburg, VA. His first album Virginia Boy, co-produced by Lucas Brown and Mike Moxham, is a polaroid of his high school years that was tracked over the summer primarily on the Thursdays he would take off work as an apprentice trim carpenter. ... more

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