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This is me playing a song I wrote in my basement. This song is on my album, "The Shakes." Get it on iTunes or at www.laurenoconnell.com . For chords/tab, go here: www.ultimate-guitar.com -------------- There are four whole people in this house And I'm the last one awake again And tomorrow we'll be biting nails And biting tongues to higher stakes again I am thinking if I just don't sleep The morning won't sneak up on me As just another yesterday again But I was brilliant for just one day In 1988 I didn't have to talk, I didn't have to think They flushed my sins right down a sink Ten fingers and ten toes, and you're okay Yeah I think that's what they say Well how about today? I think the world has got my number Oh my God, there's digits in my eyes I think that I've been dancing 'round The brightest rooms in a cellophane disguise Everybody still remembers Things that I said last September Oh, but worst of all, so do I But I was a stranger for just one day Born with the cleanest slate My mother loved me before she knew me Gave me a name that didn't suit me But hey that's okay I've kept it anyway What if I threw it away? And to me God's just a metaphor A metaphor for everything that's strange I take his name in vain a lot But I'm not sure just what that means these days Sometimes I wish that I were still religious Along with a lot of other wishes But I don't think that God would know my name But I was forgiven in bygone days When I still knew how to pray And all the words were <b>...</b> |
