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Grim Albatross

from Tales From The Teller by Jessie Williams

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Direct me for I am worn
She tells me through thick and wide doors
Decisions are stressful and life gets so messy
It leaves us entrenched in remorse

Well I'd help you if I had a clue
Instead I'm as anxious as you
So leave me to stir in intangible hurt
A hurt that no hands can undo

I've got this feeling in the pit of my belly
The one that convinced me that crying and yelling
Was how I would get through, the right way of dealing with this
I've got a woman that I love and cherish
But I can't commit to consuming her sadness
So I'll be gone swiftly
South out of Phoenix again

Each place has it's own ups and downs
It's worse for a stranger in town
You've got a big X on the back of your head
And they talk and they gossip so loud

Stick around and assimilate fine
Fit into a tragic design
Just another life lost to the grim albatross
Trapped in a facet of time

And I've got this feeling in the pit of my belly
An aching and pulling that is trying to tell me
You made a mistake and you must go back searching for her
I loved a woman so sweet and so tender
Now I'm just hoping she only remembers
Me fondly as I may return to the place of our birth

Now I'm sitting alone in the dark
With my head in my hands and a hole in my heart
And the moment I see her the ring on her finger
Pins me where optimists starve

And I'm walking the streets once again
Like a creature of night shooting dice with the dead
And I'm dreaming of her and her hazy allure
Just wishing the wailing would end

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from Tales From The Teller, released March 29, 2020

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Folk music from the Southwest

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