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Fly Blind

by Lily Though

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1.
When I Left My Honey 05:45
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When I left my honey and dismantled my shrine, it wasn't 'bout money, it was just about time Oh, I had so much there, my man and my home Why must I always, heed my urge to roam? Oh, my man was sweet and so good to me Too bad I have known what it's like to be free Oh, why did I leave him, why did I go? Now all I have of him is his voice on my phone You try to sweet talk me over the line It's just not the same as when we're entwined The more you fill me in, the further I feel and as more time passes, the less love seems real I had a man, was too hard to leave, so I had to shut my blind eyes and flee I had a man, was too hard to leave, so I had to shut, my blind eyes and flee Oh there is no reason it should be this way, but our love feels further with each passing day Still there are those moments our hearts are aligned When I think about yours, I feel you thinkin' 'bout mine Your love's in my bones, it always will be I still think about you, say you think about me! Oh I don't want to know if you've found someone new and if I should find someone, I won't tell that to you Our love is now bygone, the colors are blurred The things that we said are just syllables slurred The distance is hard, but it's time that is cruel Distance is nothing, it's time plays us for fools I had a man, was too hard to leave, so I had to shut my blind eyes and flee I had a man, was too hard to leave, so I had to shut my blind eyes and flee
2.
The Distraction Blues 02:30
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When you leave me, when you leave me You leave a memory in my bones You come as quick as you go, it's the only reason we've gone this long You distract me, you distract me I just can't get you out of my head Then the minute you get home, you start talking like you're leaving again If you're leaving, always leaving How are we supposed to know when it's real All this goddamn missing keeps on fucking with the way that I feel When you're gone, then you're gone And I can't see a reason to stay Just when I decide to leave, I hear you're coming back this way When you leave me, when you leave me You leave a memory in my bones You come as quick as you go, it's the only reason we've gone this long I'm your fool, I'm your fool This is not the kind of lovin' I choose I should have seen it before, now I know I got the distraction blues In my bones, In my bones That's the only way, we agree Now come on back home, baby, please, won't you distract me
3.
Strange Bird 04:30
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At the American River, where she told us we'd be, I try to see you and you try to see me No one can find us, though our smoke ribbons slither We're snakes in the grass at the American River I will be the one, if it is I it must be, to end once and for all this game of misery But this method of reason you cannot be told, you say to me, how can your heart be so cold? You don't believe me, so what can I do, when I tell you I'm leaving, it's because I love you You call me cold, but it's you who can't cry, so I turn away, cross my heart, hope to die There's death in the water, the bones never sank, what was spun up in spirals now rots on the bank I've always been able to look you straight in the eye, now I cant help but turn my head to cry The first time I saw you was off from afar, you were perched on a stool, a strange bird at the bar You wore ladies boots and a long, loose silk dress, a pair of sunglasses on two tall crooked legs The night we met, we slept in someone else's bed I put my hand in your hand and my head to your head Stranger things that happened, I've never known, I fell sweet on a man made of rayon and bone There was a time you'd walk streets in red fur with that strange promenade of street sages you'd lure The web of delusions you'd weave up with string was so much the better when you'd teach it to sing I know you weigh every moment 'gainst death, and it kills me to part knowing you'll consider it And I know well the truth to be simple, unflowered, I still think of your mark on the Berkeley Clock Tower Love is a promise you know is a lie, ours was your promise you'd be my Valentine And before my tears had even started to set, you said there's still so much of you I haven't met yet The morning I leave, I clear sleep from your eye, now I'm writing this line in my note goodbye I knew all along that you were my muse, I just never thought I'd get lost following you
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Wordy Way Blues 03:12
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Got a man puts me in a wordy way All we do is shoot the shit all day I just love the way he yanks my chain and tells me everything in slang Oh my man, he calls me Miss Lady Says I'm his treasure and he digs me We chew the fat 'til early morning I rest my eyes on him and his on me I've grown so used to being confused, all this straight talk fails to amuse Now, I just can't get what I need without euphemisms and analogies Now honey, baby, don't get me wrong, I love the way you put me on What you mean I'm not always sure, but any other way would be a bore My man gives me the wordy way blues No cow could chew the fat that he chews Sniper couldn't shoot the shit he shoots And no man can blow, like he can, my fuse There ain't too much more I can say I'm lost in a world of word play I love my man and I can't complain, but the way he talks is driving me insane
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New Orleans 04:47
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When can I go back to my home in New Orleans, New Orleans Been gone so long, leaving was wrong from New Orleans, New Orleans Warm breath of the river that wards off the winter in New Orleans, New Orleans Palm trees that sway in a different way, Oh New Orleans, New Orleans Give me Sunday parades, no more police raids, Dear New Orleans, New Orleans Swing all through the night, shot guns painted bright Oh New Orleans, New Orleans Holy my feet, the life in the street! Oh New Orleans, New Orleans Tourists, street cars, blues in the bars Oh New Orleans, New Orleans I wished for a friend, and a friend you did send Dear New Orleans, New Orleans Then you hovered above, taught me something 'bout love Oh New Orleans, New Orleans Then one time around, you put me down Oh New Orleans, New Orleans But I let it all pass for the sound of your brass Oh New Orleans, New Orleans I came to you late, tried to put off my fate Dear New Orleans, New Orleans Put a jump in my step, made me cry when I left Oh New Orleans, New Orleans You've got the grit in the day drinker's spit Oh New Orleans, New Orleans Then here's to you and don't you know it too Oh New Orleans, New Orleans
6.
Anymore Blues 03:01
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Well I don't want my blues no more Oh I don't want this blues anymore Think I'll leave the man at my door, So I don't have to cry anymore Now I don't have my blues no more Oh I don't have my blues anymore Isn't this what I left him for? So I wouldn't have my blues anymore I just got back into town Oh I just rolled back into town Nothing better bring me down, think I just may stick around, I don't have my man no more Oh I don't have my man anymore It's all I ever wanted before, but no I don't have my man anymore Now I don't have my blues no more Oh I don't have my blues anymore Isn't this what I left him for? So I wouldn't have my blues anymore All I wanted was to be alone Oh all I wanted was to just be alone I heard his voice on my telephone, now I'm feelin' like goin' back home Now I got my blues back again Oh I got my blues back once again I don't care 'bout these other men, I just want my own back again
7.
Ode to Angelica 02:45
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I got a girl, she treats me right, sleeps with only me every night Oh, she greets me each time I get home, never, ever in an unfriendly tone She loves me so good, climbs up onto my chest, digs her claws real deep into my neck She plants her kisses on the tip of my nose Yeah, she makes me so I curl up my toes Now, she's a big girl, don't get too far around town, her belly hang real low to the ground She's an eighth of my size and she eats more than me, lately she ain't as hungry as she used to be I'm so lucky, found my new baby so soon after my man left me She does me better than he used to do So what if she's got worms in her stool She'd never tease me, lie just to appease me, come home hours late, keep me lying awake I used to miss my man, but now I got a love that I understand They say love is blind, sure is the case with mine My girl's got rain clouds in her eyes Oh, she may be sick, but that don't change a thing I'll see her through to the end, ringworm or gold ring I used to miss my man, but now I got a love that I understand Oh, she may be sick, but that don't change a thing I'll see her through to the end, ringworm or gold ring
8.
Why Do I Do? 02:29
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Why do I love you, why do I do, I said, why do I do? Where does it come from, my lovin' for you, my lovin' for you Off into the woods, you're leaving again You live for the speed and the adrenaline, the adrenaline A vile of ghost pipe, together in dreams While you're far away, it'll hide all the seams, hide all the seams Why do I love you, why do I do, I said, why do I do? Where does it come from, my lovin' for you, my lovin' for you You say, climbers who climb without any ropes aren't testing themselves, they've just given up hope, given up hope You know it because you've done it before You've played that same game, you've walked through that door, you've walked through that door I can hear it each time you call up your mother, you say, each time we love, we take on parts of each other, parts of each other Why do I love you, why do I do, I said, why do I do? Where does it come from, my lovin' for you, my lovin' for you

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Punchy, bluesy acerbic love songs on uke

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released January 29, 2014

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