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A Spark

by Kim Maverick

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✨ I wrote this little ditty for Day 202 of the WeCreateNow project. The prompt was "sun splatters on the trail" and I thought again of my high school sweetheart. Our hometown has patches of woods between subdivisions and we spent a lot of time there, riding bikes and being eaten alive by mosquitos. It was a young summer love, vivid and intense at the time but actually quite fragile in hindsight.

I used to enjoy teasing him that all his favorite songs shared the same chord progression, so naturally I used it here, slightly skewed in 7/8. Making this track felt more like painting than producing; the final result more poem than song. 🦟

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He followed me home
I walked in silence
And listened to his awkward reveries
Who would've known
That those idle evenings would become a pastime
My favorite routine

When the days grew longer
We cut through the park
Made friends with mosquitoes
Til fireflies lit up the dark
I didn't know much of love but I felt a spark

Almost eighteen
Caught in the moment
Learning how to lose all sense of time
Felt like a dream
All that I wanted in the palm of his hand
And his hand in mine

But the nights grew colder
And his tongue turned sharp
Farewell to the summer
Hello to my first broken heart
We didn't know it was love but we lost the spark

When I look back now
There isn't a doubt

We were young and crazy
Brilliant but not smart
I don't hate or regret him
I just keep him in the corner of my heart
I let go of my love
But I kept a spark

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released June 30, 2023

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Kim Maverick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kim is a singer-songwriter obsessed with the power of storytelling. She sees songwriting as a way to untangle the big emotions caught inside life’s little moments. Kim was born in Canada, raised on soft rock radio and sci-fi novels. She studied classical music composition, then toured around dive bars with rock bands. Today she explores music production by day and plays song requests by night. ... more

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