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The Bench

Oh, I sat down like a champ ‘till the bench burned a hole in my Psoas,
my feet spoke by stomping on the floor:
“Walk out the door and go home.”

I was young, maybe twelve. Still thought God was a clock that could kill me.
Clocks were moving backwards on the walls.
“Walk out the door and go home.”

*Chorus*
And the lies would lift me further up off the ground.
They lift me up, they don’t break my fall
until I’m tumbling down like a pharaoh
carry me, say I’m a rock,
because I am.

Did the girls love you like you’ve got a disease called something longer in Latin
than your name and/or your birth-given right?
“Walk out the door and go home.”

Eat the pills and they’ll make you feel better, then in two weeks: a threatening glance, an “I don’t need you anymore,
walk out the door and go home.”

*Chorus*

Did you think that if you ran yourself so far latter
that your mother’d cry tears, county-flags hanging mid-staff on the poles?

Now you’re worried the beard makes your face look fatter
you’re alone in the park listening hard to the chatter of the doves.

And if someone walks past me in my three-foot comfort zone with my three-foot arm I’ll grab them pull them right back in and then I’m gonna shake them ‘till that candy-coating comes off their nose it might stain their clothes but I’ll keep on shaking until their heart’s on fire and when their heart’s on fire they’ll burn until I wave the smoke and their heart drug through the sand and the sea will be underneath a glass bottle waiting for me and all I’ll have to do is pick them up and hold them close like desperate times when there really wasn’t anything else to hold onto.

*Chorus*

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from I SMILE ALL DAY I SMILE ALL NIGHT, released April 12, 2009
Vocals, Acoustic, Organ, Wurlitzer: James Wallace
Bass: Thomas Samuel
Drums, Tambourine: Dabney Morris
Electric Guitar: Miles Price
Electric Slide Guitars, Background Vocals: Kevin Dailey
Saw: Paul Padgett

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James Wallace and the Naked Light Nashville, Tennessee

They say that to see in the dark, it's best to use the corners of your eyes.

I wish I had known,
I'd have seen so much coming at me.

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