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“Just Like Jon Fickes”
(Words and Music by Bradley Wik)

I met her two weeks before she died
She took the train out from Chicago
She rode in on the back of a dream of a Folk Music Scene
that died back in ’63
Her dusty old broken beat-up guitar case said that she was
true, but that’s just between me and you
And you could hear it in her voice that she had really
lived it, not just read it in some old, cracked novel or a folk song
And she was just like me when she came out to the City
She was too young to know but man, oh man, she hated the snow...

She came looking for the songs she came looking for the moon but she had everything and man, she knew
She was a pretty Midwestern Girl just looking for a Home
And it was Jon who said that she was “Just Like Odysseus”
Too far from Home and waiting for her deliverance
And I guess he was right...

She wandered around the Village for days looking for what it had so many years ago
But all she found was Rich Kids and Hangers-on and those winter winds were cold
Then she made her way over to Greenpoint, Brooklyn
That’s where I heard those songs
But it wouldn’t be long...
She sang about the year she spent in Chicago and how those Midwest Winters will suck your soul
She was a kindred spirit and it warmed my heart just to hear it...

She came looking for the songs she came looking for the moon but she had everything and man, she knew
She was a pretty Midwestern Girl just looking for a Home
And it was Jon who said that she was “Just Like Odysseus”
Too far from Home and waiting for her deliverance
And I guess he was right...

She always closed her eyes when she would sing
Like she couldn’t help but remember all the pain
And she moved just like an Angel up there with that guitar in her hands
And all the Boys, all the Boys they all wanted to be her man...

She came looking for the songs she came looking for the moon but she had everything and man, she knew
She was a pretty Midwestern Girl just looking for a Home
And it was Jon who said that she was “Just Like Odysseus”
Too far from Home and waiting for her deliverance
And I guess he was right...

And she sang like she knew too much
Like she’d never been in love
You could hear it in her soul
That she’d spent too many years just trying to find a Home
Now, her name it only comes up over drinks at the Winchester
Nobody else seems to remember her...

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from Burn What You Can, Bury the Rest​.​.​., released January 17, 2012

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