Time, keep away or I’ll kill you,
don’t waste your blessings on me.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
You’re making me squirm can’t you see.
Run out to the highway and into a car,
where some driver’s enjoying his drive.
Stand still in the throat of the singer of rock,
a place where nobody can hide.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
Me and my TV are strong.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
Save yourself – don’t be here long.
Wind down to a bedroom,
wind up in a bed,
embracing two lovers asleep.
Pass into the forest –
or is that where you’re from:
the source of the silent and deep?
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you,
don’t waste your blessings on me.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
You’re making me squirm can’t you see.
If I was a house and you were the wind,
I’d do you a favor and not let you in.
If I was a flag, I would be red.
I’m trying to warn you; stop here and you’re dead…
I held you one summer when I was a boy.
The sun took forever to set.
The song of a thrush was unending, descending,
it may still be twirling down yet…
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
Me and my TV are strong.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
Save yourself – don’t be here long.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you,
don’t waste your blessings on me.
Time, keep away or I’ll kill you.
You’re making me squirm can’t you see.
Time, keep away.
credits
from LH 1998-2016,
released November 17, 2017
Drums - Travis Yost
Mastered by Dave Beaudin, Run8Records
Song, Recording, Everything Else - Hirshberg
This is a beautifully recorded collection of unique and smartly written songs, performed to perfection. Not like anything else - that's why I love it. Larry Hirshberg
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