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This is a song like many others that is an attempt to create a little ship that will take you for a voyage through your imagination to another place, a place where you can feel alive again.

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Garden of Delight

My laundry’s clean, now I’m missing the dirt
Boiled a potato just to starch my shirt
Gave my wisdom to the fool with a broken tooth
All the petals open in the bloom of youth

I got soil from the garden of delight
Two pounds of tobacco in my organ pipe
I got a fortune when my mind caved in
Stuck my heart full of needles and pins

There’s a place I like to go
Walking the tracks with Cotton Eyed Joe
I wrapped Achilles then I strung his bow
I’ll harvest fields that I did not sow

She unraveled my sweater when she pulled the string
She said I’ll be your queen if you will be my king
I put a bullet in the pistol and spun the camber ‘round
They buried my lone in the cold, cold ground

A rock for a pillow and an angel by the stream
I wrestled her all night in my dreams
Will ya pull that cord and ring that bell
And send all these devils back to Hell

Chorus

I look back now I’m a pillar of salt
This time I know it’s all my fault
Dropping crumbs to mark the way
I keep seaching for the right words to say

Leather gloves and a barlow knife
Neighbors dog barking all through the night
My back pack, my fork and my spoon
I’m gonna jump rihgt over the moon

Chorus

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from Baby Just Give Me Your Hand, released December 15, 2018

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The Wealthy Orphans Grand Rapids, Michigan

Playing music forged in the furnace of real life, the Wealthy Orphans open hearts and unzip heaven at the same time. Their songs are lite up with vivid imagery, haunted by enigmatic narratives that confuse as much as enlighten.

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