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Something is wrong, the body has changed
A heightened security, a false refrain
The language is safe but the subtext is mean
You're spitting out words across a ticking screen
You're digging up bones. Your stories are stones
you're throwing at everyone who crosses you
I do what I can, my head in my hands
I try not to think about the master plan

We've gone to heaven to escape the truth
If you're in hell there's something wrong with you
Thunder and lightning or a sunny day
You chose your fate and that is where you'll stay
It doesn't matter what you think you've got to say
You better get on our side or be thrown away

Half of your bed, half of us dead
the newspaper's wadded up and left unread
You were the poem that followed me home
uprooted my senses, cursed my heart to roam

You never listen to a word I say
This isn't life, this is a game we play
I start to follow, then you change your name
I start to win and it's a different game
It doesn't matter what I'm dealt or how I play
I better get on your side or be thrown away

You were all confidence and rage
a ring of fire on the stage
a barbed wire fence around my mind
I couldn't take another chance
I kicked a stone, I stole a glance
but I walked single file between the lines

This ship has sailed into the dead of night
You better watch your back and hold on tight
The crooked smiles and the neon stares
The holy bible of infernal affairs
There's no joy in saying I told you so
Wish I could take back this world and never let it go

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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
Robin Chambers: violin, viola

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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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