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The Rightest Wrong

from Midwest Handshake by skittish

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A couple hundred thousand years from walking out the woods
Still you say the kind of things I thought we’d left for good
You were wrong, who’s wrong
All along the riverside you pick your words like stones
The flattest and the sharpest flung and fall between the
Musket balls and arrowheads from wars that waged here long ago
Melancholy beautiful you’re weeping like a wound
The calling of the void is strong but I’m still in the room
Is it wrong to give it up so soon?
I could see the fire in your eye had gone
The words I’d say to make you soft now made you turn to stone
I may be right but I’m alone
Gourds are on the doorstep and the trees are leaning out
Freckling the sidewalk with their berries falling down
And its cold, inside and out
I started to prefer the chilly silence that we shared
To the days you’d come home humming, smiling, and smelling
Like a cologne from a store that I can’t afford
Have a think over a drink and chewing on the ice
Later I will go outside to pick a fight with Jesus Christ to settle
Some old score that only lives inside my mind
I could see the fire in your eye had gone
The words I’d say to make you soft now made you turn to stone
I may be right but I’m alone
I told you that I loved like I was pulling at a thread
Hold that thought, trace it in chalk, cause now its good as dead
Was I wrong? Was I wrong?
I could see the fire in your eye had gone
The words I’d say to make you soft now made you turn to stone
I may be right but I’m alone

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from Midwest Handshake, released August 25, 2023
Jeff Noller: vocals, guitars, bass
Jacqueline Ultan: Cello
Chris Lahn: orchestration
Mark O’Day: Drums

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Skittish is folk rock...with thorns.

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