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Looking For Spiders

from Tumbling After by Jessica Smucker

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Jack and Jill went looking for water.
It wasn’t worth mentioning until they fell.
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater
had a wife who let him beat her.
It’s a little tale we tell - how he locked her up in a prison cell.

You would trade your health and happiness for a story.
You would rather be remembered than loved.

Little Miss Muffett got bored one day,
went looking for spiders to scare her away.
The nemesis providing all the action to incite her
story is the poisonous creature that’ll bite her.

What makes you interesting?
How does your story build?
And what’s your best excuse for being unfulfilled?
And aren’t there enough conundrums in this silly world?

Living on the edge of reason
looking for the sweet spot between silly and sublime
following the rising action
falling hard every time
bending to the strangest arcs,
you write yourself into a nursery rhyme.

You would trade your home and family for another life.
You would rather be a legend than somebody’s wife.

Mary, Mary in the corner plot
she planted a garden just to let it all rot
‘cause thistles choke and rabbits run and sunlight blinds her
and everything’s another form of failure that defines her.

What makes you interesting?
How does your garden grow?
And what’s your best excuse for being all alone?
And aren’t there enough conundrums in this silly world?

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

Jessica Smucker: vocals, piano
Mike Bitts: bass, piano
Paul Murr: drums, percussion, vibraphone
Chad Kinsey: electric & acoustic guitars, microkorg
Matt Johnson & Dan Zdilla: electric guitars
*Heather Maloney: bg vocals

*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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