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Of This Shore

from Bare Bare Bones (EP) by Jess Clinton

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Stay you well behind me, do not break into a run
I know you are just waiting for that step when I'm undone
And when you found me bent upon the rooting of a tree
I let it go unsaid that I had feigned the weakened knee
Oh god oh god it's true, I am not hard to shame
But I can sleep it off oh I can bear the pain

He said you look just like a lighthouse standing on the shore
And the pace your head is spinning makes me want you even more
Pulling into anchor oh it seemed he was in reach
But in the wake of moonshine sunrise met an empty beach
Oh god oh god it's true, I am no guiding flame
I am not of the stars, no I am not the same

A new man came and asked me for a mermaid for to moor
Oh yes I said I like the sound of travel to be sure
But in the end the boatman couldn't move me much at all
For I had become a siren standing twenty stories tall
Oh god oh god it's so, I really can't explain
I am not of this shore, no I am not the same.

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from Bare Bare Bones (EP), released June 6, 2009

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Jess Clinton New York

A NYC-based songwriter of 10+ years, Clinton bears her various facets of mind and personality through her own sensuous, often swampy-but-tender brand of addictive folk rock.

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