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Underneath everybody’s clothes
is a set of bloody, aching bones
and every baby starts to cry
that moment it becomes alive.
What does that say about this life?
Are we here just to suffer through the strife?
Just to grit our teeth and lie,
just to prove we’re fit enough to survive?
Well I don’t know about you,
but the only thing that gets me through
is the thought that I am not alone,
is the thought that this is not my home.
You can say it’s delusions in my head,
but without ‘em I can’t get out of bed.
What does that say about my life,
that I need meaning to survive?
Well maybe there are no bad desires,
and if there’s something you require,
maybe there’s a reason for that too.
Why’s it so hard for us to see that’s true?

I met him in the summertime.
Our aching bodies intertwined.
We spoke of all we’d ever dreamed.
We said we’d do it as a team.
For the sake of the team we tore apart
pieces of ourselves and our own hearts,
and this we never got above.
What does that say about our love?
Was it all delusions in our heads?
For the moment I can’t get out of bed
cause the question’s driving me insane.
But in a world of suffering and pain,
how can I complain?

I was born crying in a world that’s falling down,
I’m still smiling but it’s only to mask this frown
cause everything I see is turning red,
is it all delusions in my head?
Maybe it’s not what it seems to be,
cause the best things in life are still free.
My gratitude swells like the sea
when I think of all they still can’t sell me:
Thank you sunshine,
thank you rain,
thank you laughter
thank you pain,
thank you shade of green and blue,
thank you strength that pulled me through,
thank you those who cursed my name,
thank you beast I couldn’t tame,
thank you distant rolling thunder,
thank you my long list of blunders,
thank you evening owl calling,
thank you wilderness still sprawling,
thank you good but sad refrain,
thank you everything I can’t explain,
and motivating hunger,
thank you endless sense of wonder,
and even on those days I feel insane,
thank you what I became,
thank you what I became.

credits

from Making Friends with Ghosts, released August 20, 2010
Featuring Ueli Schweizer on violins, Sara Dickson on piano, and Steve Kroll-Smith on flute.

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North Carolina native Kristen Leigh's music blurs the lines between genres and styles, drawing from a diverse range of influences to produce unique, folk-based compositions with orchestral arrangements that are at once playful, provocative, and prophetic. Her emotionally honest lyrics explore themes like vulnerability, poverty, grief, redemption, disillusionment, courage, love, and defiant hope. ... more

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