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If I could take you anywhere right now
we’d climb the Brooklyn Bridge, I’d show you
how to see the whole wide world inside your camera lens
but you’d waste all your pretty shots on me instead

We’d throw our voice out to meet the edge
even though competing steamboats have the upper hand
and every time I make a little dent
there’s nowhere left for me to go but home again

You wrote a song that set my blind love free,
took your guitar and moved away from me
and ever since my days are all the same
tuning in to hear the one you titled my name.

I lay my head down on the radio
and let your love sing me to sleep
This song’s the only thing in life right now
I’m sure I want to keep.

I’ve seen the tired sands of Africa
I’ve been to France
I’ve been around the world and back again
but I’m still living in the town we knew
That means I’m too much of a small-town girl
to hold the likes of you

The New York skyline’s got me wondering
if you’re okay
I haven’t seen you since that autumn day
when you threw up in the cab and kissed my cheek
and I cleaned up and paid the tab and left you on the street

I go back home to where I know I’m safe
and wait for you to come out of this haze
‘cause suicide is not the only way
to kill yourself these days

Something happened when the lights when out
You rose up like a phoenix from my silent mouth
and whispered in my ear until I came around
I packed up my bags with all of my rage
and stormed the man who’s hogging up the stage

It’s not your fault you get to live like that
I don’t want your life. I want mine back.
Your luck’s the only thing in life right now
that’s keeping me on track.

I lay my head down on the radio
and let your love sing me to sleep
This song’s the only thing in life right now
I’m sure I want to keep.

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from The Sleeping World (ep), released August 1, 2008
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jason Rubal at Seventh Wave Studios

piano & lead vocals: Jessica Smucker
drums: Tommy Leanza
bass: Rob Nye
guitar: Matt Underhill
backing vocals: Erin Gosik

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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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