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i have a friend who can't closely describe her own heart
she hems and she haws and she's mostly in throes fits and starts
she feels the sun burn like a furnace the base of her hair
but tongue tied she can't but point shadows to tell you it's there

so tell me a story with chemical words
with causes and outcomes and symptoms and cures
or just sing it in syllables
serenade sweet easy rhymes
ease me for weeks at a time

tell it to me again
tell it to me again
tell me won't you tell me
tell me my name

i have a friend who says learning will set his soul free
so he checked out every book in the library
then six decades later said i'm ready to make up my mind
but by then he'd forgotten half all what he's read then he died

so tell me a story of god's only son
with verses that i can inscribe on my gun
because evil is something
that someone else has that i don't
recite it enough and i won't

tell it to me again
tell it to me again
tell me won't you tell me
tell me my name

i have a friend who's an expert at intimate lies
he tells me the secret to love is to close all the time
he says action is faith and faith is my voice in your ear
and he just bought a house with commissions he brought in last yea

so tell me a story where i'm not afraid
and i'll give you my money
and you can persuade yourself
that you deserve every dime
that these fools throw your way
sell the last trace of yourself away

tell it to me again
tell it to me again
tell it to me again
tell me won't you tell me
tell me my name

credits

from Honey If You're Lucky, released December 10, 2013
written by steve kolowich
produced by louis weeks
performed by kolowich and weeks
mixed by cory foley-marsello
mastered by mike monseur

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Stranger in the Alps is a singer-songwriter based in Washington, DC.

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