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Love Potion #10

from Crooked Earth by Ben Smith

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Take a nail from a shipwreck that sank outside your home
Find the biggest stone
And take the last lines of all the books you've ever read
let them tumble from your head
and falling to the ground, there they're stuck and
they are set like paper bayonets

and wait for night to come

take the tears of your father and
your mother's wedding dress
take the papers from the desk
the ribbons in the cutting room
and the paints beneath the steps
take everything that's left

and wait for night to come

Stand along the edge
this chance won't come again
not for one hundred years
Close yours eyes and breathe
you've got what you need
it's like you're born again
Love potion #10

Take the needle, take the thread
cut the springs out from the bed
forget everything you've said
pull the bullets from the gun
and use your steady hand
draw a line down in the sand
and as it draws up on the shore
it settles like an ink
now it's good enough to drink

just wait for night to come

Chorus

one and two, just me and you
out of the dust and then
three and four, open the door
sharpen the sword and then
five and six, picking up sticks
starting a fire and
seven and eight, there's nothing to wait for
there's nothing more and
nine and ten, you're back at the end
all of the planets align

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from Crooked Earth, released September 6, 2011

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Ben Smith West Chester, Pennsylvania

West Chester, PA songwriter Ben Smith's songs sound good in both your front parlor and your back barroom---all Tin Pan Alley piano and a fading choirboy voice.

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