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c. 2010

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A part of me still loves to watch things burn
To hear about a family torn apart
And though I swear I'll make good with my art
I'm told a gossip-monger's wage I'll earn

I said once truth is beauty; beauty, truth
Insisted Lady Justice dressed in white
But I've known ugly dogs to win a fight
This pen's a grubby claw, a sharpened tooth

If these, my words, have opened wounds
And poured out blood anew
If, telling truth, I've postponed grace
And traded balm for pain
Balm for pain
Balm for pain

Review the facts, my gentle reader
Tell me what I'm due
But truth will streak the sky and it
Will come down sure as rain
Sure as the rain
Sure as the rain

Collect on every window
Every morning like the dew
And wash me clean and prove that all
My words were not in vain
Not in vain
Not in vain

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from Words Are Fragile Vessels, released October 5, 2021
Paul Bowers: guitar, banjo, vocals

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The Camellias North Charleston, South Carolina

Ragged folk songs for hard modern times.

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