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from WPA vol. 5 CABIN SONGS

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WARM UP ACT words/music: bill mallonee

I was born old and sad...and when I got all born again
I was more elderly and......sadder still

Been gettin’ ready since I was 7....I wept in a wood for folks I never knew died
and isn’t every song alive...and about leaving?
Chorus:
And I love you for the hurt you carry by yourself
and I love for the wounds you don’t show anyone else
and you can say “I love you,”
ah, but even if you don’t
Still, tell me like you really mean it.

‘Cause that might be...the only key;
I’ll have on me when it’s time for me to straighten up my tie
and cross those thin, thin lines
between here and bigger skies

I cannot speak a lick of Greek....but I’m told those Bible writers were fond of it a lot
but what they really needed was trains and train stations, ports of entry, love songs,
and power pop

they needed fiddle tunes and reels; high and lonesome and lots of pedal steels
to put it all across....
And doesn’t every age need it’s own words.....to grieve all that it lost?
2nd chorus:
And I love you for the hurt you carry by yourself
and I love for the wounds you don’t show anyone else
and you can say “I love you,”
ah, but even if you don’t
I might need to hear it like you really mean it.

It was raining outside a cabin in Carolina; pretty much been raining now for days
for years and for and lifetimes for tears behind the veil and bright times, I’d say

Autumn sunsets and motionless swing sets.....
but a sense inside your skin
it was all a warm-up act......
for a party about to kick in.

Autumn sunsets and all those good folks that we met.....
and a sense inside your skin
it was all a warm-up act....
for a party about to kick in.

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from WPA Vol. 5 "CABIN SONGS" (released Oct. 2009), track released October 1, 2009
Bill Mallonee: vocals, guitars, bass

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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. ... more

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