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Zero Sum
04:22
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My car aint built for these roads
My heart aint made for this load
I thought that you were much older
Shouldn’t listen what a little girl says
I should’ve treated you colder
Don’t worry your pretty little head
I’m a zero sum I’m a zero sum
Go ask anyone
We can’t quite keep from shakin
Used to have such surgical hands
We spend our whole lives breaking
A little girl wouldn’t understand
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Rose Tattoo
03:39
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Take off your rose tattoo
The sweetest part of you
Cut your hair and close your eyes
Paint your lips and try to smile
Whoa-oh
Whoa-oh oh
Take off your desert’s bloom
The way they dressed your child’s room
The summer stained your cotton dress
It’s gone and left us such a mess
Send me away where it’s easy to stay
Send me away
Harder to break where it’s easy to stay
Harder to fake
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My father says I musn’t see you
Something’s gone twisted in this world
That the policeman may come and take me
For talking to a pretty blonde girl
We’d meet ‘neath the darkness by the river
My mother she cried behind her curls
How I could bring such ruin to my family
Just by talking to a pretty blonde girl
Well, I knew it when we was just children
Yeah, I knew it by the way your Sunday dress would twirl
That someday I’d lose everyone that I’d knowed
For talking to a pretty blonde girl
Now the train tracks don’t get wider by the mile
No, they diminish to a point beyond this world
And I can smell the fires of the furnace
All this for talking to a pretty blonde girl
There’s a part of me that goes on living
It’s as small and shiny as a river pearl
Well, it glows so brightly in their fires
Glowing with the love for a pretty blonde girl
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Me Without You
04:14
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I started every conversation the same sad way
I was sorry for the words I’d say
I would lean too heavy on the friends I made
I’d wear them out until they could not stay
I was a roof where the rain poured through
I was an idea born too soon
I was me
Without you
I was me
Without you
I sent ships in all direction with no course set fast
I would run so blindly down every path
I was a telephone connection where my voice echoed back
I was the thinnest finish hiding a million cracks
Oh but now I’m not so serious to see
Oh but now I sit quietly
Oh but now it’s so much gentler to be
Me here with you
This is me
And I’m here with you
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Where went old Elijah
Elijah who is gone
Please come back poor Elijah
We should never have left him alone
We should never have left him alone
When first I met Elijah
He was older than the stones
Alone lived old Elijah
Just stories, skin and bones
Stories, skin and bones
It made sense in my memory
When first I saw Its face
That never would I forget it
Nor would it be replaced
Nor would it ever be replaced
I’d have lived a good and true life
Just to know Its name
I’d fly it from the parapets
I’d shout it without shame
I’d shout it without shame
Nothing comes from nothing
And nothing’s left he was told
Moved on to drier country
You grow when you can grow
You grow when you can grow
The desert winds blow cold
They whip a devil’s storm
The day screams please forgive me
I bleached the Earth to bone
I bleached the Earth to bone
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Handsome Lady Records was born in New York City, October 2011 when 3 songwriters - Will Knox, Alec Gross & Jake Hill -
acquired a tape machine, a microphone and some reels of tape. They started recording on this minimal set-up, and have stuck to this aesthetic ever since.
The label now features many Handsome songwriters & artists, all in the name of collaboration, cross-promotion & community.
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