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kiss the ground you walk on
it’s the heart that cradles you
everybody’s born believing everyone is true
oh you get so weary
what’s it gonna take
to keep yourself together?
to see the bough not break?
bless the one you walk with
even everything he’s not
everybody’s born believing everyone is god
oh you get so weary
when god has gone away
who puts our hearts together
who smiles and lets them break
oh you get so weary
what’s it gonna take
to put us back together?
oh you get so weary
what’s it gonna take
to put us back together?
to heal what had to break?
everybody’s born believing…
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spoiling the game
05:57
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sally looks into the mirror
but she doesn’t see her face
just a wrinkle she despises
needs to be erased
she knows a doctor ‘round the corner
she knows he’ll do his trick again
she can’t resist his magic fingers
no and he won’t spoil her game
billy joe he has a problem
he wants to find his way back home
but the streets all look the same here
no matter where he roams
he’s been walking for so long now
that he’s senile blind and lame
could have always hailed a taxi
but he did not want to spoil his game
eve and adam ate the apple
and the rest was then arranged
there’s a price for every pleasure
a loss in every gain
but there’s no good in throwing stones now
‘cause you and i we’d choose the same
who’d want to go and start from scratch anyway?
who’d want to go and spoil the game?
jesus was a story spinner
at least that’s what the stories say
seems he’d only gotten started
when they took his tongue away
now i just can’t get away from
people spinning in his name
i wish he’d come back shut them all up keep them all from
spoiling the game
‘cause they’re trying to spoil my game
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your photograph
05:17
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the ground
06:40
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only you
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black cloud
04:32
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yet
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(not yet)
02:08
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nothing outside
04:43
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untitled
08:08
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Mark Davis and the Inklings Skanderborg, Denmark
"Getting at large truths with songs full of human-scale detail and unsentamentalized beauty.”
-Los Angeles
Times
“Davis is truly a master of his craft… able to lift spirits even while supporting the weight of the world.”
- Orange County Register
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