Hold my tongue, and close my eyes.
Don't you give in to that easy ride.
Block it out and let it go.
How do you recognize what you don't even know?
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling hard.
Who I am is all I know,
Colored in black and white, lived in skin and bone.
How I've tried, but failed to show.
The promise of love, it always comes and goes.
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling,
Oh, I'm falling hard.
All my life I've heard that heart drum beating, that love struck feeling
And it carried me, it carried me.
I was blinded, I could not believe it, but now I feel it
And it carries me, it carries me.
All my life I've heard that heart drum beating, that love struck feeling
And it carried me, it carried me.
I was blinded, I could not believe it, but now I feel it
And it carries me, it carries me.
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Don't you don't you get up off the ground
When you're feeling a rush and you're not coming down?
Can't you feel it pulse in your heart
With the beat of a drum, like a shot in the dark?
Oh, I'm falling
Oh, I'm falling,
Don't you, don't you, don't don't don't you get up, get up get up now
Oh, I'm falling hard.
credits
from Paper Cut World,
released January 26, 2018
Damien James: Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Jenna Parrilla: Vocals
Sarah Marino: Violin
Matt Miller: Cello
Matt Hollenberg: Electric Guitar
Bryan Shoemaker: Bass
Chris Custer: Engineering
Damien James (My Familiar)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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