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I see the shadows move across the sky
I see the stars are falling down on you
and I keep hoping maybe you’ll forgive what I’m about to do
You can handle everything just right
but then one day you see your entire life
a magician’s cloth that pulled right out from under you

You mistook me for a lullaby
but I’m a wrecking ball, I’m a thief at night
I’m the empty room that greets you in the morning light
You want to salvage something from this mess
turn our impending doom into a big success
but I’ve got nothing left and baby, I’m content to fail

I’ve been searching for the wrong ends
waging fake wars up in my head
Starve the body just to spite the soul

I’d try harder but the devil’s got his hands on me
He’s all liquored up and getting ready for the feast
If you cook it long enough, it starts to taste a little sweet
Well, he treats me right but he won’t set me free
I had to leave this town
‘cause I’d always let you down

I can feel you moving on from me
see the apple fall from the dying tree
I’m just a yesterday that flickers as you walk away
But forgiveness isn’t novocain
It doesn’t numb the lips or take away the pain
It’s just a thing you say and hope it’ll be true someday

Give me something to hold onto
the grip of hands pulling me in
Give me body, I’ve had enough of soul

I want Jesus to jump off the cross and dance with me
let our hips rewrite the canon, reinvent mercy
He’s the only one who can make me come
but we both know that martyrdom’s the purest form of apathy
I’ll be waiting in your bed
‘til you come back from the dead

Mercy, you’re the gun that hunts me down
Mercy, hands and knees I’m on the ground
Oh, mercy, I’m ready now

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from This Broken Moment, released October 22, 2010
Jessica Smucker: vocals, keys
Erin Gosik: background vocals
Rich Sexton: guitar
Dave Sheaffer: bass
Mike Roy: drums

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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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