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This was the one song which had to be totally stripped down: just my vocal and guitar - anything else would have distracted from the story: an adult looking back on their childhood with a parent whose behavior was scary and unpredictable. So many people with alcoholism or other family problems are afraid to talk about it and that’s where the dysfunction and pain get passed along. This song is about healing by telling the truth.

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Took me to Chez Gaston
told me I could order anything I want

showed me to the best seats in the house
for My Fair Lady, the one the critics raved about
I learned the actors’ names

friends came back to our living room
you said that my smarts must have come from you

then the party was over
time for them to go, you and me alone
then the change came

Chorus:

Yelling curses
hurling dishes
turned my wish
cold and blue
sudden anger
bred constant fear
of what was hidden inside of you
I tried hard
not to upset
like any child
learning to survive
mama since the
day we met
I’ve tried to keep my wish alive

Bitter medicine to swallow
not only for the patient
but for the one who opens the bottle
but this illness is real
and spells you don’t recall
left wounds i still gotta heal
to stop the bleeding

If I rip the bandage off
expose it to the air
can it be the act of love
we’re needing

Chorus

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from Learning Faith , released July 24, 2014
Jess: 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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