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The Eyes Watched the Stones

from 33 Songs for 33 People by Henrietta Toughlove

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So many stones, so many eyes, the world strikes us as fairly unwise.

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I don't know where he got all the eyes,
he had two perfectly fine ones of his own
and a hundred more made of glass
and crystal and wood and stone.

He kept them in soft-boiled egg cups
on a bookcase beside the tv,
and if you asked, he'd make up a story for each one,
and you can tell he spent a lot of time polishing them.

She was a dental technician
who used to be a waitress
and she didn't care about teeth or tongues
or bad breath or waking up early

or getting a flat tire, well, not very much,
but sometimes, for no reason, she would cry
and when she did, she liked to hold
a small cold stone in her hand...

so her house was filled with stones
and his house was filled with eyes,
and when they fell in love, the whole town rattled--

and the eyes watched the stones,
and the stones watched the eyes,
and the bedsprings sang, and all their bad dreams shattered....

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from 33 Songs for 33 People, released December 29, 2020
Arrangement: Henrietta Toughlove. Performance: Marc P., TruckStar.

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We make pop music that is messy, prickly, weirdly mixed, and free for anyone that wants it.

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