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Take It Down

from Sometime Around by Andy Palmer

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Take it down
With paper and a pen
Tote in round
In your coat, man
You’ve tied your shoes
You’ve heard the blues
Some have even been
Played by you

And you take it down, take it all down…

She fills her corner
With such a sweet song
Never made it far
But what she made she made alone
A passerby shares
A listen and a look
There’s more there
Than he can read in any book

Begrudge the baker
When there’s no rise in dough
Jump the jailer
Who never lets you go
Go’n an overnight
Mission to the moon
Beat down the bellows
Of don’t you dare do

Count all the babies
You’ve rocked on your knee
You must be in the middle
Of some kind of a loving spree
Learn and forget
The paths that’ve been
Using others’ answers just
Empties your head

You got tricks to trade
Or to be kicked by your boots
Before fall
Before nothings left to lose
So go the coast’s clear
Same as last year
Or drown in the driveway
Lazy pioneer

Dad’s down at the tradeshow
Mom’s working the farm
Some brothers and sisters
Rarely get along
But we’re all in the same room
Just turn and look
And there’s more here
Than we can read in any book

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from Sometime Around, released September 21, 2011

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Andy Palmer Denver, Colorado

Denver resident and erstwhile public defender in Brooklyn, N.Y., songwriter Andy Palmer performs solo and leads the band, Grub Street Writer. His music is raw, gritty and honest. His vocal quality has been aptly compared to Johnny Cash, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen.

Andy's debut album, Sometime Around, received 'Best of Denver 2012' status by Westword Magazine.
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