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Last​-​Minute Messiahs

from The Sleeping World (ep) by The Sleeping World

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She’s been getting used to this since she was 5 years old
Why don’t you let your little girl be a little girl?
I’m supposed to love you as if you were my kin
but I can’t say I would love you if you were

I come and sit by your bedside
but I’m running out of things to say
You’ve been dying for way too long.
Why don’t you give it up? Just give her up
You think religion’s gonna ease your pain--
your streets of gold and last minute messiahs
Long as you get on a fast train out of her mind

Dirty daddy’s kisses taste like ashes
Mama looks so pretty through the smoke
She’s been dusting shadows all her long, long life
and you’re still throwing fires on the stove

I could shine some light on your life
but the smoke is getting in my eyes
You think religion’s gonna ease her pain--
your streets of gold and last minute messiahs
Why don’t you get on a fast train out of her mind?

I come and sit by your bedside
but I’m running out of things to say
You’ve been dying for way too long.
Why don’t you give it up? Just give her up
You think religion’s gonna ease your pain--
your streets of gold and last minute messiahs
Long as you get on a fast train out of her mind
Why don’t you get on a fast train out of our lives?

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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, mandolin: 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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