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O Girl, what if I made you bleach your hair?
Your beautiful hair
Your detailed hair
Your delicate hair
You take such care

O I wouldn’t do it with force
I’d do it with words, of course
They attack like birds, but worse
They hit you when you’re safe
You curse, you’re hurt

Well I’d say, “You’d just look so much better.”
And after days and days, and days, I would have you in my fetters
You would be mine all mine, mine all mine, forever

O I’d be wrong
I hope I’d be wrong
I don’t want that control
I don’t want to grab hold of your soul and not let go

And God wouldn’t say a word
If He did, He wouldn’t be heard
O God please say a Word

But you, you can still make me feel
like a jerk in my tucked-in shirt and dark sunglasses
Maybe you could offer some classes
Telling how to rise above the masses
Yet still object to every time they’re harassed
Tell me what’s acceptable fun
Then everything would be fine, everything would be dumb

But O mama
Why do you need to look so tough?
Coz you know your life ain’t too rough
O well you just take, take, take all those photographs
Never ever letting yourself laugh
What’s it like to never smile
After such, such a long while?
You just stare off with your dead, cold eyes
Making yourself look like you’re not afraid to die


But who are you trying to convince?
And how long has it beeen since
You had any real emotion?
You’re not some kind of ocean
You’re a person, just like me
And to be free is to never have certainty

To be completely free is to never have certainty

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from "Love or Chains or Things We Can't Untie", track released July 4, 2011

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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