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The Way Down

from Tumbling After by Jessica Smucker

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If I had only one hour to spend with you
I’d swallow my tongue and take your hand.
I’d lead you to the edges of the lake at summer’s end
and break you with the flicker of the wind.
I want to give you something real and true
the beauty that grows inside the pain
all the stories that surround us as the sun slips down the sky
and the light begins to disappear again.

I want you to test my love against these fading lines.
I want you to leave me at the mercy of the night.
I want you to break my heart and show me what it’s like to feel
so alive
all of the time.

If I could show you everything at once
I wouldn’t have to find a place to start.
All the sticks and stones and thunderstorms
would crash against your loving arms
and you’d see me and you’d understand my heart.

Throwing this stone will cause a ripple but you know
that there’s a little bit of joy that can be found
on the way down.

I want you to test my love against these fading lines.
I want you to leave me at the mercy of the night.
I want you to break my heart and show me what it’s like to feel
so alive
all of the time.

If I had only one life to spend with you
I’d never run out of things to say
but the silence doesn’t scare me like it did before you met me
I can fill up all the hours singing love songs to myself
I think too much but I don’t talk
I keep things to myself a lot
It’s crazy but I’m waiting, I’m still waiting for you
to be free
to take that walk with me
Free...

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

Jessica Smucker: vocals
*Heather Maloney & Trixi Greiner: bg vocals
Mike Bitts: bass, Wurlitzer, 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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