Housefire

from New England Wind by Straw Man Standing

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and you’re never gonna change
if you don’t stop changing like new england wind
and you’re never gonna live
if you don’t live like some elementary school girl shins
you’re still on the playground, but game is played in gold
and cold is creeping deep beneath your jeans
and confidence is like some fray-winged sparrow
Nursing to its wounds up in the beams

baste up your bruises
because you’ll never get this chance to win again
put out your housefire
don’t you know we all will burn down in the end
just don’t make me live long

you’re never gonna take charge
if you by and large impart your parts with caveats and cringe
you’ll always be some back-end laugh stock freak show
if you coat your quotes for double chins
you’re disarming you’re alluring you’re a tyrant
you are mostly painful to behold
let me hold in you in the river in the water won’t you
be the plaster and my mold
you’re a levy you’re a whisper you’re an echo
you are barely visible at all
you’re a turncoat, you’re a loser you’re a liar
but you somehow answer when I call

baste up your bruises
because you’ll never get this chance to win again
put out your housefire
don’t you know we all will burn down in the end
Just don’t make me live long

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from New England Wind, released November 15, 2016

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