Gregory Alan Isakov – The Stable Song (Guitar Intro)

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Remember when our songs were just like prayers.

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Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.

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Come down come down sweet reverence,

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unto my simple house and ring...and ring.

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Ring like silver, ring like gold

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Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio

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Ring like clear day wedding bells

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Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell...we'll never tell.

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Come to me clear and cold on some sea

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Watch the world spinning waves...like machines

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Now I,ve been crazy couldn't you tell?

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I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell.

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Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table

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Well and drank and sang, and passed in the stable.

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That tall grass grows high and brown,

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Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground

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and you sent me back to where I roam.

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Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know...now I know

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And I ran back to that hollow again

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the moon was just a sliver back then.

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And I ached for my heart like some tin man

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when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang... oh, it's ringing

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Ring like crazy, ring like hell

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Turn me back into that wild haired gale

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Ring like silver, ring like gold

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Turn these diamonds straight back into coal

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Turn these diamonds straight back into coal