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Limbs
On my birthday the air smelled like it does each year / Breeze crisp as an apple, acorns crunching under tires / And even when it rains it smells dry like dust and leaves / Oh I am leaving now / And every year I feel more bittersweet than I can bear / And no amount of songs or coffee, books or tea can remedy / That everything that once was mine / No longer belongs to me / On the park bench an old man sits / With round-toed shoes like that Paul Simon song / His eyes a mirror of my own / Questioning where did the time go // There’s a picture of me propped up on a chair in the yard / When I was no more then four and dressed in dress-up clothes / Pretending to be a ballerina / Not all that much has changed / Cause I’m still trying to be someone other than I am / The sailor or the farmer or the poet with the tweed slacks / The avant garde artist with the apartment / On the wrong side of the the tracks / 19 wasn’t long ago, drunk with love, coming home / Restless and alone / And everyone I looked up to when / I hoped to grow up like my friends / I’m older now than they were then // Everyone my age seems about as lost as me / My generation from the land of make believe / Convinced we’re all unique and we'll find / Our own way but we’re all moving back home / Or trying to feed children of our own / Oh I was born in a cradle sitting on dead leaves / Red and brown unveiled from beneath the fading green / What if when we wither too / Our real form is uncovered, our colors become true / If that's the case, bake me a cake / So I can blow the candles out / And wish away my doubts and carve away / Each coming year, remove the restlessness and fear / Until all that remains in my bare limbs is change

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Heather Styka Chicago, Illinois

Though rooted in folk and Americana, Chicago singer-songwriter Heather Styka's songs are as fresh as they are memorable, chronicling the human cycles of despair and redemption, and analyzing the importance of places and relationships. Touring nationwide and having received airplay globally, Styka is a familiar face in the Chicago music scene, at venues including Schubas and the Old Town School. ... more

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