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Glass Thimble (for Shelly Hack)

from JVA - JEROAN VAN AICHEN: Ancient Chinese Secret by jva

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GLASS THIMBLE
(For Shelly Hack)

Everyone in here is very busy marking time.
Surface conversation down the line.
Waiting for the God of this Technicolor fraud.
We all came from somewhere in His mind.

There’s no message left to send.
In that red dress you can pretend
that it somehow really matters in the end.

Cold and blue - this room without a view.
Proof again that nothing’s what it seems.
Cold and blue - like a funeral tattoo.
Not even the dust left from these dreams.

She’s a peach, but don’t you think her drop dead days are gone?
The side effects are showing around her eyes.
She’s worn the carpet out on poses, preens, and pouts.
And underneath these bright lights nothing lies.

That girl left and stole your face.
But even she cannot erase that glass thimble full of truth in her disguise.

Cold and blue - this room without a view.
Proof again that nothing’s what it seems.
Cold and blue - like a funeral tattoo.
Not even the dust left from these dreams.

In this glass thimble.
In this glass thimble.
In this glass thimble.

credits

from JVA - JEROAN VAN AICHEN: Ancient Chinese Secret, released March 19, 2000
Tim Ellis: Steel-string guitar
Jeff Leonard: Bass
JVA: Accordion / Acoustic guitar / Keys / Percussion / Vocals
Ben Wertheimer: Djembe

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