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Crazy These Days

from Tumbling After by Jessica Smucker

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Dear broken mama, I hope you know
I love you more than words but there are things I should’ve known.
You could’ve shown your pain. You could’ve told me why.
It’s not the worst thing for a girl to see her mother cry.

I was ill prepared for being alive.
I never learned the art of when to tell the truth
or how to lie.
So I do my work, I shut my door. I try not to love so hard,
‘cause everyone is a little bit crazy these days.

Did you think I’d falter if I knew the truth?
And then you would’ve failed and I’d be scientific proof.
I can’t do the math. It doesn’t add up right -
how shielding me from darkness would dress you up in light.

I was ill prepared for being alive.
I never learned the art of when to tell the truth
or how to lie.
So I do my work, I shut my door. I try not to love so hard,
‘cause everyone is a little bit crazy these days.

Mother is tired
and broken like the bulb
that's shattered in a thousand pieces on the floor.
Wake up, little girl.
Don’t be afraid of the dark.
You pick it up and then you wait for the scars.

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from Tumbling After, released September 25, 2014
music and lyrics by Jessica Smucker

Jessica Smucker: vocals, toy piano
*Heather Maloney, Mollie Swartz & Dan Zdilla: bg vocals
Mike Bitts: uke bass, piano
Paul Murr: drums
Chad Kinsey: guitar, microkorg

*Heather Maloney appears courtesy of Signature Sounds Recordings

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Jessica Smucker Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jessica has performed all over the Eastern U.S. and has won several national songwriting contests including the Connecticut Folk Festival and SolarFest. She has opened for notable acts like Cheryl Wheeler and Bill Staines, and shared festival stages with Patty Larkin, Dar Williams and Antje Duvekot. Her third full-length album, Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies, is due out in September 2020. ... more

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