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Sweet and Broken

from Tumbling After by Jessica Smucker

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Summer is hot but the water is cold.
You swim up to me, hold out your shriveled-up hands and say,
“I think we’re getting old.”
I’m trying to laugh but you’re drifting away.
You’re saying, “Cheer up, Angel Face. Nobody’s dying today.”

There was a time when you were a snowman
melting in the yard before my eyes.
The grip of your hands to the wisp of a man
evaporated, drifting out of time.

I want to be like the edges of the sea
fold your sweet and broken body into me.

There’s a statue of a lady poised above her grave.
It says she fell down a crooked staircase on her wedding day.
I pass her in the crowded cemetery on my way
to the bar where I’m going to drink away another day.

I want to be like the edges of the sea
fold your sweet and broken body into me.

I walk around this little city - it’s a trap these days.
Everybody wants to leave but everybody stays.
I hold my hand out to touch the cool breeze,
crunch the leaves beneath my shoe
anything to feel alive now that I’ve lost you.

I want to be like the edges of the sea
fold your sweet and broken body into me.

Autumn was sweat and winter was blood.
We thought that we could make it to the spring.

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

Jessica Smucker: vocals, piano
Keith Wilson: bg vocals
Mike Bitts: bass, synth bass, piano
Paul Murr: drums, percussion
Chad Kinsey: guitar, vibraphone, microkorg

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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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