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Shadow Casts a Shadow

from stir that mule up by Short Hand

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We were just about to bolt
And we stood by the door
when the alarm went off on
The famous fifth floor
The gold bracelet
That hung from your wrist
Gave away the plot
And the plot twist
After the back ally opened
After the nuns, the meek
The widows and the orphans
We slid down the chutes
With arms criss-crossed across our chests
Stiff as little cigerettes
And that’s when I knew the truth
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow (ain’t that the truth?)

As if in centuries before
In some cursed civil war
We answered questions with
Wet slippery battle gore
It was always a plan
No matter how it seemed
And blood ran down
Our faces like kerosene
And despite the warnings
From the county health department
Despite the letters from a certain
Boarded up basement
Despite raised eyebrows
and nervous coughs
We quickly took off into the dark
And that’s when I knew the truth
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow (ain’t that the truth)
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow (ain’t that the truth)

And tired as I am of taping
Knives to my boots,
Tired as I am of the bootless truth,
There’s a car in the lot
Out of gas and no
gas can in the back
no one to ask for gas
In a barn with a whole bunch
Of ladders around
In a loft in a barn
with the beams and the
Bird sounds
Somehow the future unrolled like
A spool of twine
Your lips rose up to mine
And that’s when I knew the truth
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow (ain’t that the truth)
That’s when I saw my own shadow
Cast a shadow (ain’t that the truth?)

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from stir that mule up, released December 1, 2022

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Short Hand Muncie, Indiana

Short Hand figures that it's easier to learn to play an instrument than it is to find someone who can play it. He also figures that it's easier for him to do the writing, recording, mixing, artwork, and anything else that might need to be done. In the end, a set of sounds collect themselves into different shapes one might call "albums." Some sound like this and some sound like that. ... more

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