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HEART​~​SHAPED KID

from PALE LIGHTS OFF STARBOARD​/​WPA 14 by Bill Mallonee

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I think this is sweetest song I've written in a spell.
The lyrics still reduce me. I like it when songs "go there."
Pax,
bill

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HEART-SHAPED KID by: bill mallonee

so many things mold me & you
power, money & fear to name a few
and the idols of the age wanna piece of you
But you got a heart-shaped life, my friend
cause you’re a heart-shaped kinda kid
always seeing beneath.......the skin 

chorus:
It’s a world that’ll show it’s teeth
but you said: “well, it’s gotta a lot to keep hid.”
Sa’ kinda thing you’d expect to hear
From a heart~shaped kid

you said: “try not to count the costs
it’ll all come out in the wash
get over that ledger sheet
of won and lost.
It’s easy for ‘em to drift far from shore
til they’re all caught in the undertow”
and when that old world sighed
you felt it in your bones

Now count Basie, he was really a King
88 keys and he made ‘em all swing
and the world, for a moment, was a Cotton Club dream
Satchmo blew a single note
s’all it took...s’all she wrote
and the hearts on that dance floor
became new & clean

credits

from PALE LIGHTS OFF STARBOARD​/​WPA 14, released July 15, 2012
Bill Mallonee: 6 & 12 string guitars, dulcimer, vocals

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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