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Shy Girl EP

by Jess Klein

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Shy Girl 03:48
If I stand perfectly still, eyes and nose aimed at the ceiling If I act cool, to the point of chill Frozen limbs, and no sign of feeling While the world around us seems to dip and twirl and sway Maybe I’m afraid to show how hard my heart’s been pounding Since you looked my way And if you wanted me I would not stand a chance Because through me you’d see The shy girl at the dance A shy girl, who’s dreamed about this night Lookin’ back on an old photograph Homemade dress, and her eyes reflecting the spinning lights And the hopes that never came to pass The crowd moves with the band I’m trying so hard to refrain But when you hold my hand Spinning lights appear before my eyes again Chorus You there holding up the wall, don’t you wanna tear it down? With the simplest of moves, maybe turn this thing around Chorus
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The only cure for loneliness is to feel it for a while The only cure for loneliness is to feel it for a while Know your pain, own your pain, til the owning makes you smile And that’s why the great ones sings the blues   The only balm for anger is to let it burn The only balm for anger is to let it burn Sweat your flames, name your names Til your precious peace returns And that’s why the great ones sings the blues   Liquor won’t cure it Making love won’t do Betting high won’t save your soul Neither will aiming low You gotta walk up to the devil and let him pass right through And that’s why the the great ones sings the blues   The only fix for bitterness is to let it dry you up The only fix for bitterness is to let it dry you up Til you weep with relief to taste the bitter stuff And that’s why the the great ones sings the blues   The only clear way out of fear is to shake in your shoes The only clear way out of fear is to shake in your shoes Shake until you’re cold and still and then you will have paid your dues And that’s why the great ones sings the blues   Liquor won’t cure it Making love won’t do Betting high won’t save your soul Neither will aiming low You gotta walk up to the devil and let him pass right through And that’s why the great ones sings the blues
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For two years I been walking I been walking on my feet Because I had a vision A vision leading me A vision of a bridge Braided out of rope Crossing a great canyon A bridge made out of hope I remember looking Off of that cliff At how the bridge would swing Each time the wind would shift And yet I felt the need to grip the guardrails with my palms The need to lean forward The need to carry on If I had known what it would take I would have turned and run away Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to let it fly Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to not ask why And walking til the day I die You would not believe How few words there are to say When you spend your days Moving this way Mostly all I’m thinkin’ Is the next two foot stretch Mostly all I’m feelin’ My toes gripped round the edge Voices say I’m crazy I know that it’s true But on the day I close my eyes To bid this world adieu I will not pray for heaven Or fear the fire below I will simply be asleep With nowhere left to go If I had known what it would take I would have turned and run away Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to let it fly Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to not ask why Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to say goodbye Instead of standing here learning faith Learning to let it fly And walking Walking til the day I die
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I watch the children play and I wonder What if they were mine Would I let their light pull me under Laughing all the time Would I jump with them on the trampoline Would I catch them when they fell down crying Would I know enough to never know too much When I saw their young eyes shine With their hopes so high and the longest sigh Parents choose our names But when we arrive, how we fight Being called the same Til the moment when we no longer can Bring ourselves to judge them for the question put above them Would we know enough to never know too much When we saw their young eyes shine Would you look at me running round a tree Free as I was then Would you trust in me and the world I’ve seen To take care of them When they went away, would we always stay Young as they would have us be Young as all eternity Would we know enough to never know too much When we saw their young eyes shine Would we know enough to never know too much When we saw their young eyes shine When we saw their young eyes shine
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You might not see it But I can feel it He’s walkin up this road With a boyish smile And some funny way Of lightening my load You might not hear it But I do When he says goodnight It might sound foolish But when I’m worn and blue This vision holds me tight My man is comin He’s walking towards me He’s made his own way Now he’s longing for me He’s longing for something true Now he can see me too He can see me too When life bears down on us We’ll find a way to laugh To lessen the toll We’ll find a way to trust Each others’ better halves And believe each others’ souls Times when we might Lose our bearings When our fears lead us astray Those are the times we’ll hold tight To the ground we’re sharing Til the fears melt away My man is comin He’s walking towards me He’s made his own way Now he’s longing for me My man is comin’ He’s walking faster With a love more sure than My last disaster My man is comin’ He’s stepping closer And he won’t be turning And running no sir And I am ready I’m holding steady To this one dream We can make come true My man is coming And he can see me too He can see me too
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She stands on her stoop, hand on her hip She welcomes them With a smile and a laugh, but takes no lip From boys or men But inside her kitchen, the table’s spread With the cards she reads When late at night and all alone She asks for what she needs She stands inside the old screen door Weighing strength and sin And wonders when he will appear And when she’ll let him in She’s known her share of weary travelers Who took a liking to The knowing girl who’d give them laughter For the world they knew But once she’d let the screen door open Let her longing win They’d swing back out and kill her hoping For what might have been Chorus She knows She knows Something’s gotta change Someday She’ll have to look inside again He’s steady as a stone ridge mountain And he’s slow to shift Even through the ups and downs That make some others slip He sits outside on his front porch And thinks about a girl Who’d lift him up from time to time From his earthly world Chorus

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released June 18, 2013

All songs © Jess Klein, House of Leo Music ASCAP

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Jess Klein Hillsborough, North Carolina

Rochester, NY native Jess Klein is known for staking out brave lyrical and musical territory with such albums as Wishes Well Disguised (1998), Draw Them Near (2000), Strawberry Lover (2005), City Garden (2006), Bound to Love (2009), Behind A Veil (2012) and Learning Faith (2014) which Folk Radio UK calls “unquestionably the finest album of [her] impressive career.” ... more

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