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INDIGO GIRLS lyrics : "Hammer And A Nail"


Clearing webs from the hovel
a blistered hand on the handle of a shovel

I've been digging too deep, I always do.
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like narcissus

A dark abyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.
I look behind my ears for the green

Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes
Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail

Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows

From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
I had a lot of good intentions

Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts.
But my life is more than a vision

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.
My life is part of the global life

I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community

A street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring.

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