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The Ceiling

by Day for Night

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The view from the empty bed. Performed by Day for Night, a country band from Portland, Maine, in 2011.

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The Ceiling

By Doug Hubley
Boulder, June 2010–Portland, March 2011
Copyright © 2011 by Douglas L. Hubley
All rights reserved (ASCAP)

I have a lot of questions in these hours before dawn
Such as, Was that a confession? And is she really gone?
And what should I be feeling? And what did I do wrong?
I ask the ceiling, but it won't let on

Ask the ceiling, who?
Ask the ceiling, where?
But the ceiling never speaks
And it sure doesn't care

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Ask the ceiling, why
Why is she cruel?
But it's just looking back
And it's seeing a fool

I ask it in the evening as I polish off the gin
And the memories are seething and the room begins to spin
I ask it as the birds sing and dawn comes creeping in
I ask the ceiling, When did this begin?

Ask the ceiling, who?
Ask the ceiling, where?
But the ceiling never speaks
And it sure doesn't care

Can't say where she goes
Can't say who she sees
What the ceiling can say
Is that she is free

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released November 9, 2013
Doug Hubley, mandolin and vocal. Gretchen Schaefer, guitar and vocal. "The Ceiling" copyright © 2011 by Douglas L. Hubley. All rights reserved (ASCAP).

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Doug Hubley Portland, Maine

Doug Hubley is a musician and writer in Maine.

He has covered arts and lifestyle for publications in Maine and Massachusetts.

Doug began learning guitar in 1966, and hopes to finish the job one day. He has played with such bands as the Fashion Jungle, the Cowlix, the Boarders and Howling Turbines.

Today he is one-half of Day for Night, an acoustic country band also starring Gretchen Schaefer.
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