The Bombs

from Horses In The Chest by Short Hand

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When the doors open and the sun floods out all it's hopeless causes
I can still awake,
Half staked on my careless crosses
And pushing memories, pushing and pushing and pushing
I still awake
With a face
I can't name
With a name I can't change or replace

But taken, be as that may, there's the pillow I put my head on
And the dawn over me
Either side of the ocean
And somewhere there, out of time, the lights in the dark coming on
And I lie awake
I hear the train braking
With a face I can't change or replace

And when everything is said and done.
She's on my side like no one.
When everything is gone and gone
I swear that she is on my side

I never meant to mention her, to mention the sun, the moon or the door
I half see the point
On the other hand I don't
I was young when I didn't know her, I'm older now and I know it too
We both know about youth
We don't know the future
We just know the bombs
We breathe on.

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from Horses In The Chest, released January 1, 2010
All music, vocals, and lyrics by Shorthand P. Davis ©2010

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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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