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Pretty Sentences

cashews

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Lyrics

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Woke up Tuesday to a headline

That don't mention me by name

They wrote the truth in disappearing ink

And I signed it just the same

Pre-Chorus

Somebody's talking soft and slow

Somebody's selling what they stole

Chorus

Silent narration

Running through the wire

Silent narration

Fanning little fires

They hand me pretty sentences

I swallow every line

Silent narration

Tell me yours and I'll tell mine

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Verse 2

My neighbor swears the sky is falling

His brother swears it ain't

I drove two hundred miles of highway

Chasing what I can't

Pre-Chorus

Somebody's talking soft and slow

Somebody's selling what they stole

Chorus

Silent narration

Running through the wire

Silent narration

Fanning little fires

They hand me pretty sentences

I swallow every line

Silent narration

Tell me yours and I'll tell mine

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Bridge

Fold it once

Fold it twice

Pass it down the row

By the time it reaches me

I don't even know

What was said

Who was there

Why I ought to care

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

I got a letter from the capital

Full of nothing dressed in gold

It said believe me twice on Sunday

Then it never called me home

Pre-Chorus

Somebody's talking soft and slow

Somebody's selling what they stole

Chorus

Silent narration

Running through the wire

Silent narration

Fanning little fires

They hand me pretty sentences

I swallow every line

Silent narration

Tell me yours and I'll tell mine

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Oh-oh mm-hmm

Outro

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

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