It has been four years –
“Kiss Like Your Kiss” by Lucinda Williams
(Lyrics below)
I have yet to figure out how they manage, the parents whose children are taken from them by gunfire –
As Aaliyah Destiny Boyer, age 10, was in Mannheim, Del., on New Year’s Eve 2012 …
As Easton Curtiss Brueger, age 8, was in Bennettsville, S.C., on Dec. 30, 2012 …
As James Lee Parker, age 12, was in Wake Forest, Ill., on Dec. 28, 2012 …
As Cade Franklin Curry, age 12, was in Blossom, Texas, on Dec. 20, 2012 …
As Alfreddie Gipson, age 10, was in Memphis, Tenn., on Christmas Day, 2012 …
As Sincere Tymere Smith, age 2, was in Conway, S.C., on Christmas Day, 2012 …
As Brennan Schuyler Nowell, age 2, was in Hamilton County, Tenn., on Dec. 20, 2012 …
As Aydan Perea, age 4, was in Kansas City, Mo. on Dec. 17, 2012 …
As Ryder Rozier, age 3, was in Oklahoma on Dec. 15, 2012 …
As Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau, age 30, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Charlotte Bacon, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Rachel Marie D’Avino, age 29, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Olivia Rose Engel, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Dawn Hochsprung, age 47, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Chase Michael Anthony Kowalski, age 7, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Anne Marie Murphy, age 52, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Daniel Barden, age 7, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Mary Sherlach, age 56, was in Newtown , Conn.,on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Grace McDonnell, age 7, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Victoria Leigh Soto, age 27, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Josephine Gay, age 7, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Dylan Hockley, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Madeleine Hsu, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Catherine Violet Hubbard, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Jesse McCord Lewis, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As James Mattioli, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Emilie Parker, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Jack Armistead Pinto, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Noah Pozner, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Caroline Phoebe Previdi, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Jessica Rekos, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Avielle Rose Richman, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Benjamin Andrew Wheeler, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
As Allison Wyatt, age 6, was in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 …
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“Kiss Like Your Kiss”
Words and music by Lucinda Williams
There’ll never be a spring so perfect again
We’ll never see a yellow so rich
The grass will never be quite as green
And there’ll never be a kiss like your kiss
There will never be a summer so complete
We’ll never see a palette like this
Berries will never taste as sweet
There’ll never be a kiss like your kiss
There will never be an autumn so vivid and warm
So red, so golden, so crisp
Never see a color in aubergine
There’ll never be a kiss like your kiss
There’ll never be a winter quite so true
When the sky is painted with gifts
And there’ll never be a moon so full and blue
There will never be a kiss like your kiss
There’ll never be a kiss like your kiss
Words of War 