Name: Crocodile Tears
Duration: P00H05M25S
Description: Recorded in John Stokes basement in Paw Paw, MI.

Crocodile Tears

by Ty Maxon

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Recorded in John Stokes basement in Paw Paw, MI.

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Whistle past the graveyard
Wake me from my sleep
I am afraid of my own shadow
Not your songbird melody

How long have I been sleeping?
My mouth is desert dry
Bless me with cool clear water
And the bitter blood red wine

I found a violin
With all but two strings
And I brought it for you
Would it make it tremble and sing?

While I lay inside the clover
And I feel my hears grow numb
When the good times all are over
Then at least we’ll have a song

Trade a basket full of feathers
For a fraying length of twine
And climb a rope clear to heaven
Where those white wings failed to fly

When you’re just an earthbound peasant
Its toil and do as told
But if them pearly gates did open
I can’t play a harp of gold

And I don’t believe in magic
Or what my stars say
I believe in oh big trouble
Big trouble on the way

Like the high noon shadow rising
Like the night watchmen asleep
There’s a storm on the horizon
And a shifting wind toward me

In the winter of my bones
Another year tattooed by skin
I called no place home
It was then you took me in

And I became a stranger
I’d hide when you came near
And I put your love in danger
Crying crocodile tears

But I was just a bare branch baby
Waiting for the spring
When your song sparrow in the morning
Woke everything

Let me burn my past to ashes
Let me stay more than awhile
Shake the sleep from your eyelashes
Let me make those brown eyes smile

Shake the sleep from your eyelashes
Let me make those brown eyes smile

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released January 3, 2017

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