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Portraiture

from Mammoth EP by Mammoth Murmur

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So solo on please honey
I've tried playing for money, and I'll tell you it aint worth it
When in the end in the mirror
It's the face of a stranger staring back with your eyes, it'll be a surprise
Though it shouldn't

So play on please honey
The food of love and I'm hungry
I've got thirty white soldiers, all starving for battle
They won't shake, quake not a rattle

Like this portrait I've tried
A thousand times to draw
It's perfect in my mind
Every detail, every flaw
From the structure of her chin
To the chip on her shoulder
Once I've got this drawing down
I can grow older, I can grow older

I'll chisel you out from the onyx
Let your stone case fall away
Until each curve is true and honest
And your shape's in proper frame
When only beauty remains
That when I'll abstain
And give you a name

Like this portrait I've tried
A thousand times to draw
It's perfect in my mind
Every detail, every flaw
From the structure of her chin
To the chip on her shoulder
Once I've got this drawing down
I can grow older, I can grow older

The small of your eye
And that green that we share
I'm starting to think
We've come unprepared

'Cause day after day
My sleeve's on layaway

Like this portrait I've tried
A thousand times to draw
It's perfect in my mind
Every detail, every flaw
From the structure of her chin
To the chip on her shoulder
Once I've got this drawing down
I can grow older, I can grow older

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from Mammoth EP, released August 2, 2013

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Mammoth Murmur is a folk-fusion band based in Boston, MA

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