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Lyrics by Calvin Armerding
Music by The Muchmores
lyrics
listen up now
you've kept your ears filled up with other voices way too long
listen up now
i've kept my voice below a whisper since i was just a child
but those days are over now
now i'm wild untamed and loud
you might want to take a few steps back and listen now
put both your hands up
i've got something for you coming down the track
put both your hands up
you're gonna need them for the trip you'll be taking on the back of my own two hands i made with my fist-pump cavalcade
riding single file with lights turned on in the middle of the day
i'm not the same son you called on over without claim on birth or name
i'm not the same one you spoke on down to from the pulpit that holds up your cane
i'll be seating you down now at the front row of the crowd
not to make much but so you can see and hear that i am proud
get in your box now
it's where the dead have always gone and i know that you would hate to disappoint them
you're probably hoping that i've always felt the same
now i'm moving earth and stone
while you're all just skin and bones
lacking blood you were ashamed to wear in youth in your "happy home"
i'm all alone now
free as air and wracked with debt you left for me to fill
so come on back now
we've still got work to do
and i've been thinking maybe we'll talk out all the days and flames that i started as a way to burn down the house i thought you said was yours
but somehow stayed
credits
from Leave This Circus,
released January 19, 2018
Calvin Armerding: guitars, lead vox
Shelby Price: harmony vox
Jeff Hennessy: percussion
Cameron Duncan: trumpet
Ken Davis: piano
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