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For What It's Worth

from Passing It Off as Art by Pete Davis

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This is another song that was original intended for a different band but used for this project.

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You've wiped the smile right off my face and slapped it on my effigy. Pray, don't make me laugh, in fact to be safe, sew my lips together, lest I won't know what to do; they'll find us out for sure. They'll paint the inside of my eyelids red.

Is it too much to ask to smile one last time before my teeth are pulled. Is it too much to ask to shoot the cans one last time before the bullet's in my head.

I just want to stop shaking, I just want to be held. I just want to be handed an ace and king; get out of this game, 'cause all I see from these is sun and moon, brazen horn bells, my own sunken eyes slapped on with ink, and quickly taking up the flames.

Hanging just above the ground, but just out of reach. Just out of breath.

I would give anything to hear you scream at me to tun out this ringing in my ears from the last time. I would gladly take all of the blows, and ask for nothing more than to see you cry so that I know it was worth it. So that I know it all worked. So that I know, for what it's worth, that when you pinched me I really was awake.

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from Passing It Off as Art, released March 1, 2003
P Davis:
Acoustic Guitar
Piano
Banjo
Organ
Cello
Percussion
Vocals

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