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Yellow Fever II

from The Birth of Ikmik by One Word

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My skin is blue
From running out into that cold November night
And after you.
Oh son you shouldn’t hide among the trees
You make me stumble on their roots
But I will fall down when I choose.
I wish you had a pair of roots
I think a home could cure your bullshit blues
I think you know that that’s the truth.
I think you know that that’s the truth.

But I guess you forgot about the night you left
And stole your mother’s car and risked arrest
And how you kept us all worried to death
We’re still worryin
We’re still worryin
About the life you chose
The road you took
And how it all sounds lifted from a book
But one that left us out
And called us crooks
You’re love’s a thievery and you refuse to see

Don’t you decapitate me boy
If you’re gonna put words in my mouth
Put ‘em like I would.

Do you stop to think of what you’ve done anymore?
When you’re living your life out on the run?
Cause you left me out there on that cold November night
I just want the warmth back from my son,
from my son.

Say it’s your birth
But it’s an adoption of what some men were
And now you’re tailgating that hearse
And you’ll follow that cab
Like a rich man’s purse
Or the woman that you love
Oh but women only deal in handcuffs.

If I cut you don’t call it permanent
If I run right out the door into the winter’s wind
Cause my shame moves to heart and begs me to repent
But my pride pulls at my legs and it’s my legs that win.
And I will hang you from this hook
like every problem that I have.
I will give you yellow fever,
dress your children up in body bags.

Go tell the world that you’ve been born
And now you will not run when you smell that storm
You’re gonna stick right to your guns
But you’ve got shaky hands and a burning tongue
And all you ever spoke were lies
So when the rain comes down
we won’t let you inside.
Yeah when it finally falls no one wants you.

Do you stop to think of what you’ve done?
When you’re living your life out on the run?
Cause you left me out there on just one too many nights
I just want the warmth back from my love,
From my…

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from The Birth of Ikmik, released February 14, 2012

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One Word Memphis, Tennessee

A few folks from Memphis, TN. One Word has been making music together since 2007.

They are currently in the studio working on there 2nd album "Judgement Day" due May 2015.

One Word is:

Daniel Clarke
Gabe Hatch
Chris Madden
Josh Samuels
Chris Vermillion ... more

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