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Four Tables and a Chair

from Go and Give the Guard a Break by Meghan Hayes

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lyrics

You and me with our submachines
You and me and our submarine
Racing our way to the bottom
Little lady with the microphone
Is saddled with a default loan
You smell failures 'fore you spot 'em

It's just four tables and a chair
Just four tables and a chair if you got 'em

Counting change the other day
When shuffling Lucy came to say,
"The baby's in deep water, can you hear him?"
I said you're welcome to all I got
Just keep that boy out of earshot
I'm scared to death to go near him

It's just four tables and a chair
Just four tables and a chair if you got 'em


I did not intend to try
But there were just four tables and

Winter nearly blew me out
But spring had a lot of clout
Burning its way through the shutters
As we wash slush and sweat away
I strain for what you say
You get more done when you mutter

It's just four tables and some stairs
It's just four tables and some stairs that are rotten

Bocce in the living room
Bean bags in the afternoon
Queen Jane, bring me a mirror
The smell of willows, ill-used broom
The slice of snow that iced our tomb
Made each and every one of us a dealer

There’s just four tables and the pair
Just four tables and the pair of us plotting

Candidly, I don't believe
We're wanted by the ones we grieve
But you can be so insistent
Go and break yourself in two
You'll see there's much more you can do
When solid ground is distant

There’s just four tables and the pair
Just four tables and the pair of us plotting

There's just four tables and the pair, just four tables and the pair, just four tables and the pair of us plotting

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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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