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Sin Eating Eyes

from Tumbling After by Jessica Smucker

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I’m walking the world today with backwards-facing feet,
trying to dance without music or a beat that I can
follow through the wilderness of your love.
But are you okay? Will you survive? Am I doing this right?

I’m taking the liberty of cleaning up this awful mess.
If anyone’s wrong, I might as well be the one to confess.
I’ll take it away, I’ll make it disappear before you realize
what I’ve seen with my sin-eating eyes.

I get so nervous when he takes his second drink.
The beauty of whiskey is it always makes you think about
the things that seem important in the magic of the night.
Then you wake up in the aftermath of just another ordinary fight.

I’m taking the liberty of cleaning up this awful mess.
If anyone’s wrong, I might as well be the one to confess.
I’ll take it away, I’ll make it disappear before you realize
what I’ve seen with my sin-eating eyes.

Give me the stories that you never wanted to tell.
I’ll write my name in every scene.
Watching you move your mouth
I forget myself and I don’t know who I am
with your words in my head.

I’ve had to kill so many women just to be the one I am.
And for what? All the truth and the blood on my hands.
And now I’m walking toward the light without a bottle or a friend -
nothing to fill up the space between me and the bitter amen.
Amen.

I’m taking the liberty of cleaning up this mess I didn’t make.
No, I don’t need your help. It’s coming way too late.
I’ll take it away, I’ll make it disappear before you realize
what I’ve seen with my sin-eating eyes.

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

Jessica Smucker: vocals
Mike Bitts: bass, piano
Paul Murr: drums
Chad Kinsey: guitar, vibraphone
Corty Byron: slide guitar

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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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