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20170707 - David Is an Artist

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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lyrics

Bill, don’t be so hard on him;
David is an artist.
Before you play in symphonies,
discover what your part is;
just don’t choose the hardest.
One road leads to money.
Down the other, see him running
to a chest of treasure where
his secret heart of hearts is.
Our David is an artist.

“You’re wasting your whole life!”
That doesn’t scare me.

What you are you measure how-
ever you feel called to.
As the walls that are your censure bow
and fall down all around you,
let this torch of artist be
a gravity to ground you.
As long as you live and breath
while I am gone and buried,
this weight you still will carry,
you my dearest heirloom
gladly raffled off in bedlam
and gloom in stranger’s bedrooms.

“You’re wasting your whole life!”
That doesn’t scare me.

“You’re wasting your whole life!”
That doesn’t scare me.

David is an artist.
David is an artist.
David is an artist.
David is an artist.

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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