Jon Sands - Break [Video] - The Good Men Project

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Jon Sands, performing at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn, NY.

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break me over
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coals that sizzle and spice out
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laid by those who speak no better
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language than
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pain break me on a long night when i
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have exhausted
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the picture of myself that i have
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painted painstakingly
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break the me i am not break me when i am
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slurped along the sticky tile in a messy
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house
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break me when i believe i built the
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house
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and am the house watch me ride along the
0:31
plaster break me over something small
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love break love and shove my face
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into the shards find me where there
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isn’t a light for miles look at me
0:42
hands in my pockets like i’m asking for
0:45
it break me
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like it’s the only truth i know
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it’s not the only truth
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i know that is the secret i
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hold in the pocket that i keep to myself
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in my pocket my secret is a crow my
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secret
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is a small marble you may have passed a
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thousand times
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on the sidewalk and didn’t even know it
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you’d have stolen it
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if you knew so even i wasn’t allowed to
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know
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for i might have given it to you freely
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i would have given my life
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freely for my life was yours when you
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broke me but look at my secret now
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a small crow in my own pocket watch me
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preen
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watch me chirp my little beak watch the
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me who grew
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from all these spare parts the me who
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hid the one
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who didn’t believe i was a piece of
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who didn’t believe i was an elevator
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that went lower and lower until
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i was in hell it felt like hell but
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wasn’t because i was in my pocket i know
1:44
it’s confusing but that’s how it works
1:46
because i’m sitting on the floor
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while i write this and have a smile on
1:50
my face that i won’t give away for
1:52
anything but a bullet
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and even then i don’t know where it
1:56
would travel but it wouldn’t be
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far look at it in the sky now john what
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came from breaking what has been built a
2:03
whole city
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you could never imagine until you saw it
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with more than your eyes
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take a step back and look at what grew
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what grows still even as it breaks
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for the sky

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