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Old Screen Door

from Shy Girl EP by Jess Klein

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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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from Shy Girl EP , released June 18, 2013
Produced by Mark Addison and Scrappy Jud Newcomb at The Aerie, Austin, Texas

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Professor Feathers

Rob Hooper; drums
George Reiff; bass
Scrappy Jud Newcomb; electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Jon Dee Graham; background vocals
Mark Addison; toy piano
Matt the Electrician; horns
Jess Klein; acoustic guitar

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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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