Kevin Devine – Country Sky Glow (Guitar)

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You carry the beach in your way too short hair

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That you shaved off last week cause you freaked and got scared

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That when it's longer, you remind me of her

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So you offered it up with what passed for authority,

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A strict sort of challenge that you directed straight at me

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You said "forget her, I don't care what you two were"

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So it's a trick on your ego

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A two-step off tempo

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A solid gold bracelet

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Under lights in a window

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In some shopping mall where I never go

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You play coy and count tiles, drag your toes through the water

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Raise your eyes, bite your lip and my mind's in the gutter

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You move at me and take my face in your hands

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I feel light bulbs explode and a fire crack thunder sends

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The slow seismic shift, the sprawling cloud cover

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But when we're finished I feel awful again

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So it's the same sorry story

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Just the cast changes nightly

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It skips like a record

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But it glows like a movie

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You're the country sky that I never see

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Shake in your voice makes me feel empty and ugly

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All scattered anger like a windstorm howling violently

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And I wanna fade out

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And wake up somewhere else

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Where no face is familiar

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And I'm left by myself

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To keep plugging away

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On my own wasted time

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To eat badly and spend all my money and write

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To not feel too guilty

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To be tired at night

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Since I'm not fixing things here

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I'll leave them behind

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So you make your decision cause I'm through making mine

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Now I walk where the street swallows light like it's water

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I see the slant of your smirk on every kid at the corner

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But if you called, I'd never know what to say

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So I just hope you never will

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Cause things are easier that way