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Jeni based her lyric for this song on Jane Austen's Emma – knowing that the ideal lover is right in front of you, but not sure how to say what you feel.

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The Mystery of You and Me © Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2006
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Vs.1.
How can we say we’re meant to be
and then doubt we should be in it?
How can we say we’ve waited so long
and then end it before we begin it?

Vs.2.
So many nights we’ve laid awake
thinking it was only the weather,
wondering if our troubled hearts
thought we should have known better.

Ch.1.
If we could find the compass and map
to show us that heavenly key,
we could unlock the mystery of love –
the mystery of you and me . . .
the mystery of you and me.

Vs.3.
How will we ever learn to love
if we refuse to let love teach us?
Is it we who are too deaf and blind
for it’s light to reach us?

Ch.2.
If we could find the compass and map
to show us that heavenly key,
we could unlock the mystery of love –
the mystery of you and me . . .

Ch.3.
If we could find the compass and map
to show us that heavenly key,
we could unlock the mystery of love –
the mystery of you and me . . .
the mystery of you and me.

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from Live in LA with the Big Picnic Band, track released May 1, 2015
© Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, 2006

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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