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Once upon a time when everything was going fine
I threw myself into a mess
I saw you move, I took a risk
You threw your head back in the light
of the moon that fragile night
shook the demons from your hair, inhaled the music with the air
Baby, I'm afraid of you
You dance like the spirits do
The way you arc, the way you bend
You could make me feel again

I want music in my mouth
I want you to show me how
There's a fire in your step
The smell of peaches on your breath
I'm the moonlight overthrown
You're the hot front from the west
Every time you ask to dance
I say no but I mean yes

They clear the tables off the floor
I want to dance but I'm not sure
how to move and how to be
when the music seizes me
I take a step but I'm too shy
I'm thinking how I want to fly
across the room, out of my head
out of here, into your bed

I want music on my lips
To feel the world against your hips
The rhythm's moving in your step
and there is fire on your breath
I'm the moonlight overthrown
You're the hot front from the west
Every time you ask to dance
I say no but I mean yes

Maybe there's an explanation
for this paranoid vibration
The undertow beneath the sea
that's pulling you away from me.
My instincts have been dispossessed
my cadences on house arrest
The way you arc, the way you move
like wind around the darkened moon

I want music in my mouth
I want you to show me how
There's a fire in your step
The smell of peaches on your breath
I'm the moonlight overthrown
You're the hot front from the west
Every time you ask to dance
I say no but I mean yes

Yes

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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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