Bare Bones

Album: Bare Bones (2009)
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  • I remember what my daddy taught me
    'Bout how one risky is in a cold ditch
    And one more thing about good and evil
    You can't tell which is which

    Well, if the rest is lost and history
    Or maybe wasted on a fool like me
    And that these bare bones
    Would leave me something after all

    Old Hamlet's done now, dead and gone
    And there's no ghost who walks
    Poor ? tells you everything he knows
    With no tongue to talk

    It seems the truth is hidden where the sun don't shine
    And I'm never certain if it's theirs or mine
    It's just the bare bones
    They give you that much after all

    They preached the gospel down in?
    They preached it in school
    It never made much sense to me
    Wonder if it was supposed to

    You go on down a millionaires road
    Watch a while, tell me what do you see
    The truth itself, nothing but a gamble
    It might or might not set you free

    I guess, my old man was hard to read
    And I don't really know what I believed
    But in these bare bones
    There's something lovely after all Writer/s: LARRY KLEIN, MADELEINE PEYROUX, WALTER BECKER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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