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SWEARWARDS
Grandma once said, jump on the bed
to wake up your way to the top.
Where to begin? The alphabet wins.
I am sleeping my way to a flop.
No place to stay! No place to sleep!
Will no one here open their doors?
Doing my best; looking ahead;
taking it easy by force.
Swear to god. Swear to god.
Swear to god. Swear.
One hundred men. One hundred men.
Dad had the strength of one man.
Dad was so strong, he was true to my mom.
He built their bed with his bare hands.
Daddy, my head, brimming with death,
selling my shares of the world.
Just one more son, better than some,
but I know he wanted a girl.
Swear to god...
There once was a leaf, the most beautiful leaf
any tree of the world's ever known,
and her dad kept her close, close to his heart,
safe from the wind and his prose.
But one day the wind uncovered the leaf,
and from home in a cloud he was scheming.
Beautiful thing, look for me when
your sisters and father are dreaming.
Swear to god...
And sure as the sea dotes on the sand,
the wind moved on her like a poem.
But in morning the leaf woke on the ground;
she woke in the sticks all alone,
her green turned magnificent rose.
Blushing, the leaf looked up at the trees,
why would the wind blow me off?
My baby girl, everyone knows,
love can be hard on the soft.
Swear to god...
Jesse is it getting light out?
Jesse is it getting light out? If only...
Swear to god...
DAS - Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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