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I Trimmed My Beard Today

from The Information Age (Part Two) by John Elliott

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The length of my beard is all you need to know
If it’s trim I’m feeling happy, if it’s long I’m letting go
And there’s nothing you can tell me, and there’s nothing you can say
But honey let’s go out tonight
‘Cause I trimmed my beard today

I was worried for awhile there, I was aching and concerned
I’ve been down so many times now, you’d think I would have learned
That light comes after darkness and night will never stay
Now I’m standing in the sunshine
And I trimmed my beard today

There’s so much that I want now that I can never have
The ghosts I know for certain are burning through my past
There’s a woman that I love, there were women I’ve just known
One was simple, one was sacred, one was stupid as a stone
I was sleeping in the twilight when the light came shining through
There is magic in these mountains, there is work I have to do
There are demons in this desert, there are reasons I’m with you

I still never see it coming, it still makes me come alive
I’m a tease upon a tightrope, I can fool you half the time
If you catch me when I’m falling I’ll be tangled up and weird
And if you wonder how I’m doing take a gander at my beard

So the armored men are many and the change is slow to come
There is one thing I’m afraid of, there is death that has been done
In the end we’ll have to face it and I promise we will pay
But let it wait until tomorrow ‘cause I trimmed my beard today
Yeah, let it was until tomorrow ‘cause I trimmed my beard today

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from The Information Age (Part Two), released February 12, 2021

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“John Elliott is the Andy Kaufman of folk music.”

“Post Seinfeld, Post 9/11 Eyebrow Rock.”

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