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Picked by the Root

from Face First in the Dirt EP by Hoots & Hellmouth

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Babe, you look half asleep
You’re hiding your eyes and I can’t see
Where you’ve gotten now.
Are you up and how high are you?
Hi, how are you?
Does it feel a little better when you sing
All those shades of gray
You gather in a day
Away, away?

Is it common where you come from
To laugh at losers in love
As they all fall from grace
Burying their faces in the dirt
Of dear old mother earth?
Then it’s right back to the root of the curse
You can blame your mother’s heart
But don’t pick it apart
Cuz it picked you
Yes, you
Little ol’ you

Sit down on your hands and wait it out

Maybe I should just take a hint,
Run myself for the president,
Or take a savior’s tone
And lead all my little lambs home back to
My father’s house
On an orchard in the south,
Where there’s a hole in the roof
And all the water’s run out.
Where I would no less be
Happy as a seed in the sod
Just waiting for the nod.

Sit down on your hands and wait it out.

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from Face First in the Dirt EP, track released January 1, 2011
written by sean hoots

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With music and lyrics that are both transportive, yet achingly familiar, Hoots and Hellmouth offer a stream of songs that are earthy and ethereal, buoyant and tranquil, fluid and precise.

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