Speak the Truth for Once

from Emotional Geography Vol. 2 by Painted Chain

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She walks out of the waves,
With that look on her face.
A look that says,
There is no place, there is no place.

There she is and it’s oh, so plain,
Like leaving paradise at the first drop of rain.
She just runs away,
She just runs away to stay.
She’s got that look on her face,
And in come and out go the waves.

(chorus)
Why don’t you speak the truth for once?
Why don’t you speak the truth for once?
Why don’t you see what you smash against,
The splinters of consequence,
The wreck and the ruin that always, always, always comes.
Why don’t you speak the truth for once?

She walked out of the waves,
From a home warm and safe.
A home that says,
There is a place, there is a place.

There it is and it’s oh, so sad,
Like picking up what remains of everything we had.

(repeat chorus)

It just drifts away,
It just drifts away one day.
It’s not a home warm and safe,
And in come and out go the waves.

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from Emotional Geography Vol. 2, released April 4, 2015

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Painted Chain Baltimore, Maryland

Painted Chain is a trio from Baltimore.

Hand-built guitars and handmade arrangements.

Music for a time like now, a time back then.

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