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Poison Arrow

from Ravine Road by Ben Smith

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lyrics

Watch me fall
out of grace
I won't make a sound

Bring the car
round the front
keep the motor on

I won't be here for long
The time has come to get far away from here

I tied the sheets together like a rope
out the window all I see is smoke
and the driveway looks like a moat
so I slip outside with the rest of the ghosts

Plot a course, a steady force
and it's carrying me away
but you read my mind and between the lines
and you're right behind me

I feel it coming
the wind is humming through the
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart

I lose the car and it's after dark
and the stars won't protect me
And the cops won't help, there's no one to tell
it's too late for retreat

I know you're on me
the clouds are forming round this
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart

Then I'm climbing through the vines
ignoring every warning sign
You zero in, I'm wearing thin
and the trees start to spin all around me

Now I'm underground
but word gets round
and there's nowhere left to hide

There's no sign of life
there's no shining light
nothing can survive

Now this is it
it's like a whip though the
straight and narrow,
a poison arrow for my heart

Watch me fall
fall from grace
when you hit your mark

So it's you
you went straight through,
a poison arrow through my heart

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from Ravine Road, released September 5, 2013

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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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