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Waiting for Love (That's a Stupid Thing to Do)

from Picardy by Ben Smith

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Waiting for love
that's a stupid thing
a stupid thing to do
Like it would come and look for you

Don't hold your breath
life is life or it's death
so what you living for?
don't make a long story short?

Stop wasting your time
with love songs that rhyme
stop wishing upon every star

Don't be a wreck
try recklessness instead
Stop whimpering at the door
Stop wearing holes in your floor

Tell everyone
that you're done playing dumb
you're better than that
you're done (with) feeling trapped

Stop wasting your time
with love songs that rhyme
stop wishing upon every star

Don't you sit there and talk to me like I'm some wretch
like my chariot keeps swinging right over the fence
Let's go for a ride
We're two of a kind

I might not be the one who you see in your dreams
I'm coming apart at every seam
and what's falling out
this glitter & doubt

Get on with it, man
as soon as you can
stop looking for the door
not everything's a metaphor

Wear your heart on your sleeve
gotta give to receive
it's as simple as that
everyone of these cliches are facts

Stop wasting your time
with love songs that rhyme
stop wishing upon every star

Can't you see, it's written all over my face
a moment of clarity, not a charity case
you see it, too
it's mirrored in you

I know you don't need no rescuin'
you don't need a tower to jump out of your skin
but if you do
then I need it, too

so let's not be the ones who are so faint of heart
that they crash and they burn before they ever start
my heart's on my sleeve
and it's looking at me

so I won't wait for love, not for anything
No voice from above, no chariot swing
I've waited enough,
I'm not waiting for love

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from Picardy, released September 4, 2018
Ben Smith -- vocals, piano, guitar
Tim Celfo -- bass
Brad Hinton -- guitar
Sean Hoots -- guitar
Thomas Bendel -- drums

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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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