I Need a Hug

from Wee-er & Dearer by Elsie MacDonald

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Just a little joke on Dick Gaughan's album cover for Outlaws and Dreamers.

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What if I go back to the person I was
Before we fell in love and I faught for the cause
Would I still lie awake at night?
Wondering what went wrong and where was heindsight

Before we were in the past
And i faught to make each moment last

What if I go back to the girl I used to be
Before I'd grown up to really see
The world I was growing to live in
Before I had to work for a living

See the world throught the beautiful lense
Of a girl who struggles to make friends

And I'll to look and search for a person to be
Maybe I'll find her in the next cup of tea
But I'm at the bottom of my mug
And the leaves just say I need a hug
I need a hug

Oh, what if we go further to before I learned to talk
When my brothers would carry me so I didn't have to walk
And my mum would tell them off cause she knew I had to learn
But I knew that I was loved and it wasn't one I had to earn

And I would sleep the whole day
And in my parents arms forever I would stay

Not have to look and search for a person to be
Maybe I'll find them in the next cup of tea
But I'm at the bottom of my mug
And the leaves just say I need a hug
I need a hug

Oh, what if we go forwards to the person I'll be
In twenty years if I'm not yet swallowed by the sea
Will I have settled down and built myself a life
Had a few kids maybe got myself a wife

See the world through an experienced eye
Hopefully somewhere halfway to the day I'm gonna die

Not have to look and search for a person to be
Oh, maybe I'll find him in the next cup of tea
But I'm at the bottom of my mug
And the leaves just say I need a hug
I need a hug
I need a hug
I need a hug

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from Wee-er & Dearer, released September 1, 2022

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