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Black Thumb

by Amber Valentine

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Chapter Nine 02:14
(You're really swell, I have to admit you Deserve expressions that really fit you So I've wracked my brain, trying to explain All the things That you do To me...) So now I count count rosary beads And I put too much stock into my dreams In which the dead visit me And talk about you We talk about you We talk about you
2.
I have tried in vain nevermore to call your name Baby won't you please come home Cuz yr lover's all alone I have tried in vain nevermore to call your name When you left you broke my heart But that don't have to mean we'll part Landlord's gettin' worse, I gotta move May first Baby won't you please come home Baby won't you please come home
3.
Armed Forces 03:50
I miss the scarecrows in the cornrows that used to call out to me With their minor melodies on stringed things But they have all left me now O, they have all left me now And my father’s fondest wishes were followed out So where’s that urn of ashes? Does it rest on foreign mantles? Or has it all been scattered to the wind and to the water? It seems my memories are somber And it seems that they’re being forgotten But the photographs remain and I am haunted Yr photographs remain and I am haunted Though you’ve forced me out with your armed forces And you’ve shortage of sympathy for me O, you forced me out with your armed forces
4.
(You don't own me - Don't try to change me in any way You don't own me - Don't tie me down cuz I'd never stay You don't own me - I am not your many toys You don't own me - Don't say I can't go...) Please don't ask me to stay I can't see the day from the bed we made And now I lay here The hours are long and my baby has gone And I have encroached upon the realization I was doomed I knew when I met you, I should have turned away But yet - I clung on! And the hours are long for my baby has gone And he lashes out like viper He's just like a sniper locking in on a shot I gave it all that I got but it was never enough And he'd always call my bluff So in the blinding light of the sun I will have to move on Though I've always preferred the twilight dusk of the evening But you forced me to leave (So don't tell me what to do And don't tell me what to say And when I go out with you Please don't put me on display I'm young and I love to young I'm free and I love to be free)
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The blues ain't nothin' but a pain in yr heart When you get a bad start When you and yr man have to part I ain't gonna just sit around and cry I know I won't die
6.
In heaven, everything is fine Oh can I photograph your smile before it disappears again And you are gone for years again I know I'll never hear from you Can I take your picture before you go? Oh, no In heaven, everything is fine You've got your good things & I've got mine
7.
A Stone 01:41
I think I believe that if stones could dream, they'd dream of being laid side-by-side, piece-by-piece And turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know And when that queen's daughter came of age, I think she'd be lovely & stubborn & brave And suitors would journey from kingdoms away just to make themselves known And I think that I know the bitter dismay of a lover who brought fresh bouquets every day only to be turned away to remember some knave who brought just one rose, one day, years ago
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Phantasm 03:32
If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea Cuz that is where you'll find me, underneath the sea So I've let the roses die in their vases Catching dust just like catching light Day to day, I pretend that I'm alright Though the how's and the why's, they still sting my eyes If I think of you too long It's always always been feast or famine Just like it's always always been drought or drown Just like I've always been waiting for you come to around But baby, you're not coming and it seems that I've been done in By the silence and the sacraments Though yr younger brother's 'round here Clad in black just like a gravedigger exhuming my memories And they burn and blister upon me Disguised as nightmares so I can't sleep Since the day you left me Disguised as nightmares so I can't sleep Since the day that you left me

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released May 26, 2015

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Amber Valentine Detroit, Michigan

Amber Valentine is a girl who likes spooky things. She writes a lot of songs about ghosts, bones, and teeth on her out of tune upright piano.

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