Fossil Tears

from Words To Break Your Heart by Steph Barrak

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No matter what I do, I know you're keeping tabs
Everything I say goes into that mental notebook you have
And I don't think it's fair, but I don't have a choice
It's just the way my cards keep falling

If I were to go, I know you'd be upset
But everything I am can be purchased or created again
I don't think it's fair, I'm so easily replaced
But it's just the way I've been evolving

So give me ten million more years
I'll grow scales and claws and steel jaws
Watch my weak heart disappear
We'll go excavating for my fossil tears

Take it down a notch, with you it's hard to breathe
Every time we talk I'm always disagreeing to agree
And I don't think it's fair, but that's way it is
It's just the way my cards keep falling

If I were to go, I know you'd be upset
I know how I made you feel in bed and you'd want it again
And I don't think it's fair, but that's the way we live
It's just the way I've been evolving

So give me ten million more years
I'll grow scales and claws and steel jaws
Watch my weak heart disappear
We'll go excavating for my fossil tears

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(ten million more years)
(weak heart disappear)

So give me ten million more years
I'll grow scales and claws and steel jaws
Watch my weak heart disappear
We'll go excavating for my fossil tears

repeat

No matter what I do, I know you're keeping tabs...

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from Words To Break Your Heart, released February 14, 2013

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Steph Barrak Boston, Massachusetts

Indie folk/pop from Boston, MA.

All proceeds go to Girls Rock Campaign Boston.

Photo Credit: M. Davidson-Schapiro

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