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A Prayer for Dry Season​/​My People Are Scattered

from Rain​-​Weather Music - EP by the Dancing Hats

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Fire, take no prisoners,
Rob me of everything I've got.
For if what I have is what I am,
Then really I am not.

Yes I've stored up my treasures
And I know they'll rust and die
Yet I slave to keep them safe away
Thus, where my heart resides

As ash the dust of what I was
Winds from hill to sea
You've killed your hostage cursed flame
But really set me free

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He made his own tap shoes from aluminum cans
Says he hates it when people just stand
Not a day over twelve he says he believes
the sky seems so much bigger in New Orleans

A crooked man lives off of those who are weak
Selling neon religion and cheaply made things
At the end of an era it comes to a close
What was was he good for and where does he go?

I am standing, I am waiting
I am flying, I am dying

He's sick like swine, a drunk teller of tales
It's amazing how quickly conversation gets stale
Says he likes civics but he wants to get away
He's such a liar he'll die here someday

My distant cousin by marriage not blood
Dragged on a cigarette and told me all she could
Married at 16, she offered me a smoke
I really want to take it but I'd probably choke

I am standing, I am waiting
I am flying, I am dying

Her eyes were full of dreams
But nothing's ever as it seems
She looked at me there with her foggy stare
Said, Go away. Just go away.

I've always been pretty old for my age
I don't have a story but I've got a stage
Sleep is overrated but I've got to succumb
Cause if I don't sleep tonight, will tomorrow ever come

I guess that I'm just one of those souls
Who doesn't really belong anywhere
I'm a wanderer, a traveler at best
My people are scattered but so are the rest

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from Rain​-​Weather Music - EP, released February 16, 2012

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the Dancing Hats Portland, Oregon

The Dancing Hats is a folk-rock n' roll outfit out of Portland, O.R. and they have the most fun. Forming over a weekend excursion to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and soon adding anybody they could find (violins! trombones! mandolins!), the group stays up late playing anytime they can and would love to sing for you whenever you would like. ... more

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