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You
You who were with me when the battle began
You watched it consume me ‘cause you know who I am
You slept there beside me when I couldn’t go on
When I was built like a bishop, but I moved like a pawn


Still
Still you were patient
Still
Still you were proud
I couldn’t say nothing and you
You spoke too loud
Then everyone noticed
Or ignored it and joked
It was not what you needed, but it was just what you hoped

Now I’ve seen all your secrets and I’ve read all your lists
And I was an idiot the first night we kissed
When there was no history
When there were no words
When we were atoms colliding in a blind universe

There was nobody else then
There was nothing to do
There was no one who mattered until there was you
I still never go back there
And I never think first
And I never surrender
And I never rehearse

I saw what I’m feelin’ if I know it won’t hurt
That’s why silence is honest in a thin summer skirt
It’s a thick winter curtain that hangs in the air
We know what it means, but we’re scared when it’s there
And I wanna tear my brain right out of my skull
I wanna rip it up and make sense of all
I wanna hear my heart right out of my chest
And squeeze it ‘till it splatters all over your dress
I wanna kill all the preachers who murdered my soul
I wanna punish the poets who filled it with holes
I wanna scream at the strangers who laugh as they pass
Who know all the questions, but don’t dare ask

I wanna jump from this building and drown in the sea
To be baptized again, to be able to breathe
I wanna talk to my demons and gather my ghosts
And tell them I’m grateful they’re always so close
‘Cause it’s them that I live with and it’s them I believe
When daylight is creeping and I start to bleed
It’s them that I cherish, it’s them that I need
It’s them that remind me to be careful with greed

I can only continue
So I will never be free
I don’t know when it started
What happened to me
I’m a priest on the dance floor
I’m a dog in the night
I’m atrocious and shameless when I’m beckoned to fight
Yes, it’s all in my making
Yes, it’s all in my mind
I can’t say that I’m lonely ‘cause it’s there all the time
It’s there all the time
It’s there all the time
It’s candle and elbows
It’s cotton and clay
It hangs all around on a wedding day
It hangs all around on a wedding day

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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.”

“Well crafted and artful songs by a potentially disturbed individual.”

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