‘On A Monday’ is the story of teenage summer fun that ends in tragedy: a young girl drowning. It addresses the way a single event can define and haunt your life.
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Summertime.
My parents gone.
All alone.
Called you up.
Hear you still.
The sound of ghosts.
And later on, by the lake,
You're toasting me.
Kiss me once, baby.
Kiss me, kiss me twice.
Maybe.
No, leave me be.
All of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
And so they pulled you out Tuesday,
And blamed it all on the alcohol.
You said, “a little swim.”
Did you mean to come back at all?
All of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
So, am I glad to have known you?
I don't know.
Come help me decide.
Another decade alive.
God, it's been a long and lonely road.
And all of these things, Rhian,
They are dead to me now.
All of these things, Rhian,
I still feel them somehow.
And you'll always be on a Monday,
Just floating around.
And I'll never sleep on a Monday,
Out looking for you somewhere.
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