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Hello Misery
04:24
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VERSE
I'm a mess, I'm a fool, I'm a goddamn fool for you baby
I'm a wreck, I'm arrested, I'm wrong in the head
I drown in my dreams, you spread like a weed searching for water
And when you shine like the sun I know that I'm done, you're pulling me under
CHORUS
Give up, gone, goodbye girl, time to say hello to misery
You know just where she'll lead you, y'all ain't no strangers
Give up, gone, goodbye girl, it’s time to say hello to misery, hello misery,
VERSE
It’s a shame and a sin what you do, what you do to me darlin'
You're a rogue and a wretch how you pull and stretch me thin
I'm a frog in a pot, you're turning it up, the flames getting higher
Your tempting and teasing and begging have sent me from flame to the fire
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Forced to pull out all the stops to forget you
Friends and neighbors shake their heads. And I'll bet you
Twenty silver dollars that I pulled out of a wishing well
That you're the same old path to the same old place I know so well
CHORUS X2
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Up in Smoke
05:16
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VERSE
Well now I, I’m gonna put you down,
‘cause down is where I’ve been.
Like smoke rising, I looked up to you,
but you were gone with the wind.
Now clear skies are all around,
but I can’t lift my gaze up from the ground.
CHORUS
You had me going north by northwest
so I couldn’t tell low from high.
But the wind is blowing south now, baby,
and I can see a hawk in that sky.
TAG
So now I, I’m gonna put you down,
‘cause down is where I’ve been.
Solo
VERSE
Well now, mama told me when I was young:
Love’s like looking into the rising sun.
Dad was dark as a winter night
but you were bright as sight.
That light’s what I made my life about
but then that fire went out.
CHORUS
All you left me with was scorched earth
so nothing new grew in my heart.
And that’s the way it’s gonna stay, baby,
till my hopes for you depart.
TAG
So now I, I’m gonna put you down,
‘cause down is where I’ve been.
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Little Heartbeat
04:13
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Set your little heartbeat next to mine,
and our two hearts will pitter-patter-pitter-patter right in time.
Your little heartbeat’s the sweetest sound I know.
When I first heard your little heartbeat, it struck me dumb,
‘cause in the sound of its thimp-a-thump-a-thimp-a-thump-a is the drum of drums.
Your little heartbeat’s music to my soul.
If home’s where the heart is then I’m content
to live beside you in a hall the size of Taj Mahal or the smallest tent.
Your little heartbeat sets my hearth aglow.
You poured love into my heart from the first
in a flood of tears that effloresce with happiness, so my own swells to burst.
Your little heartbeat makes mine overflow.
What your little heartbeat says to mine
when we two have a heart-to-heart-to-heart-to-heart is that life is fine.
You’re after my heart and I love you so.
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The Hurt Project New York, New York
The Hurt Project features original blues by guitarist and songwriter Marlon Hurt, in collaboration with many up-and-coming blues artists.
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