Eleven Easy Steps Towards a Graceful Exit

from Don't Say You Don't Know What You Want by Elephant Island

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lyrics

Where were you? Forgotten
Forever but the blindness at the bottom
A face passing unseen
A place nobody's been
Just forgotton

Where was I? Remembered
A photograph, a face the same as ever
A patchwork of young years
A voice you think you hear
You remember

And now forgiveness
Looks a bitter little business
A passing grace
Excusing an escape
Now we are thieves
Take what you can and leave
An instinct overturning all the world I once believed

You sleep through slaughter
We don't owe you the whispers lost in the running water
No corner of our house
No view to the days rolling in and out
While you sleep, we slaughter

Wake up now, we've finished
Lost in a fire or whatever, there wasn't a witness
Nothing holds us here
Everything's as it appears
We've finished

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from Don't Say You Don't Know What You Want, released February 26, 2009
Galen Hartley - vocals, acoustic guitar
Kelby MacNayr - drums
Jamie Cummins - wurlitzer
Marc Jenkins - pedal steel
Glen Manders - bass

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