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On the way to Arizona
with a suitcase full of nothing
lucid stories, tentative lies
I hope you don't mind that's all I've got to offer

From the cockpit, the pilot's smooth voice
A shot of vodka from the waitress's tray
Hope is beyond me, the world's below me
From my seat I'm mapping out the landscape

The world is checkered fields and solid, curving lines
The snowy mountains are sublime
I'm glad to live and bleed and sing most of the time
but if this plane would crash
I probably wouldn't mind

You love me best when I'm on a mission
Can you believe in my bad decisions?
Everyone's grown up and moved away but
I'm still sitting in my little room
begging you to play with me

We climb the rocks until we're ten thousand feet tall
move with the panoramic scene
In Arizona there's no safety net at all
and only canyon's mouths
will catch you when you fall

This story's fading
We're going extinct
We've got a few good years
I could survive if I'd stop caring what you think but you are
everpresent as the tumbleweeds
blowing all around me

On the way home from Arizona
I close my eyes and try to sleep

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from Reluctantly Yours (ep), released March 6, 2010
piano & vocals: Jessica Smucker
bass: Dave Sheaffer
violin/viola: Robin Chambers

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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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