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Honest

from Return by Common Folk

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I'm a clay pot dropped and shattered on a tile floor/You say you can sweep me up/Put it back together this time but I'm not so sure/You know I've been here with you before//I've been here with you before/What's the use I keep walking out/What’s the use I keep slamming the door//Being broken wide open like this it can be scary if anyone's looking/Cause were all so used to painting portraits of ourselves/But using certain colors cause were trying to tell/The right story about who I want to be/Or the story of who I want you to see/And I could write you a poem let me write you haiku/I’ll write you a sonnet I bet im just like you/And the truth is all my words are just letters drawn on a page/And you know better than anyone I could just draw all day/Don't mean a thing I got notebooks full in the basement/I got notebooks full in the attic/I write but I don't read them/No I won't even look at it//I used to to keep a note folded up in my pocket/And I’d just take it out so I could get what I wanted/Oh you wanna hear a story well let me tell ya/Whichever one will make you like me better/I noticed that my words got this way of convincing/That who I really am is really someone different/So used to telling stories that I tell/Always running from my real self//And Shane said a man can't break the mold he can't change what he is/I think he was just tired of living the life that he lived/And I think I'm getting tired of all this weight/You know I'm dragging it around here everyday/Do you know heavy it can be holding all the words you want to say//So sweep me up put me back together/This time I'll try to be someone better/Baby sweep me and I promise/I'll be someone different I'll be someone honest/And I heard that word ain't nothing without action /But all this fucking work ain't nothing without passion/So baby sweep me up and I promise/I'll be someone different I'll be someone honest

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from Return, released October 26, 2019

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Common Folk Alfred, New York

Singing songs about God and community since 2011.

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