Pretentious Song For A Pretentious Girl

Words and Music by Jeff Stone

From Jeff Stone's "Life, Death, Love, Hate, Hope, and Bad Apartments"

For more songs go to jeffstone.com



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Verse 1:

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Somewhere on the road from Lake of Bays to Espinola
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I was winded by emotion so that I could hardly breathe
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I felt on the verge of a moment in my life
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Like St. Paul, when Damascus-bound, his Saul-self took its leave


Chorus 1:

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I felt like the heavens were just seconds from opening
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And a voice like a storm of hurri - cane might
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Would command me, ever clearly, to return to your life
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While I writhed in my mortality
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Now humbled and without sight


Verse 2:

I was running away and feeling like I shouldn't

Feeling like I should turn around and go right back

And searching the sky above me for an answer

With one direction light, and one direction black


Chorus 2:

When the sun had almost made me blind I finally turned away

And listened to the crickets in the weeds there by the road

And there was heard no great or lordly speeches from above

Just a rumbling, turning wheel

Valued weight, shallow road



Verse 3:

Within one minute I would stick out my thumb

The truck would kindly stop for me and I'd be back on course

To my cousins' paint-chipped home in tiny Espinola

Fearing love and planting roots, as if Lake of Bays was worse (repeat twice)



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