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The desert plays with a young girl’s heart
The things that are close seem so far apart
You swear you’d never pass that way again

So you keep standing there in the middle of the road
Telling and retelling every lie you’ve been told
‘Til you’re certain every chance has blown away.

She ain’t near here/ only fears dear/ you left her for
Your own relief/ hawking fake grief/ door to door


Know what it means to be carried, know how it feels to be hauled
Know what cold sweat sees when it meets the wall
Dust don’t settle in the loud light of the day

You’re a tough old lion, you’re a sweet old lamb
I see you’re falling apart just as fast as you can
The devil’d offer his hand but he can tell you know the way

It’s not the sheer fear/ the constant dark here/ that makes her smile
It’s when you’re nowhere/ life can seem fair/ for a while

Counting all of the times you weren’t around
You helped her pass right through this world without a sound
With her eyes on the ground

Charity rots in the garden with the bleeding hearts
Try all you want baby it won’t pass for art
When did you start to trade your pain for pay?

Pretty tired of talking to the back of your head
She makes so damn much of what little you said
Now there’s only one wolf that can keep your sleep at bay

You can go now/ you don’t owe now/ traded less for more
Dug herself out/ there’s no doubt/ she was never yours

Counting all of the words you never said
Laying odds she’ll live though she was born dead
Laying odds in your head

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from Go and Give the Guard a Break, released January 1, 2005

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Meghan Hayes Nashville, Tennessee

Meghan Hayes is a singer-songwriter, Nurse Practitioner and landscape designer living in Nashville, TN. Her most recent record, Seen Enough Leavers, is a bruising post-divorce document of pain, anxiety and loss, that has been lauded as “one of the best Americana albums in recent history.” Hayes is currently interviewing producers for her next record. ... more

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