Ten Bucks Says
from EPs & Singles 2009-2014 by The Friendly Ghost
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from Children & Fools Tell the Truth (2011)
lyrics
If I had a set of rules set apart from the public schools,
different from the state laws and the comfort zones of the bourgeois, well I’d
build a house inside my sleep big enough for my soul to keep.
Don’t bury me for habit’s sake if I die before I wake.
’Cus insanity’s an awful name for the mind to big to frame
and sensual reality may be just formality
but conversation from day to day doesn’t even start to say
all the hints you need to hear and all the ends you’ve always feared.
What if it was them, not me, who missed the point entirely?
Like time is not a straight-edged line counted up from none to nine(nein).
Waste it on such hollow words just to feel like I’ve been heard.
I think it’s getting pretty hard keeping up with who we
(are you listening) to the sense of what I’m saying?
(can you hear a thing) past the attention you’re not paying?
(ten bucks says) you don’t remember my name
and I’ll take that bet.
(I don’t get why) you’re not never sleeping
(and I don’t get by) without my worry leaking.
(Ten bucks says) there’s more to what you’re seeing
and I’ll take that bet.
Can you count your friends
on a single hand?
Can you count on them
to make more than they spend?
I can count my friends
on a single hand.
I can count on them
to pay back what I lend them.
different from the state laws and the comfort zones of the bourgeois, well I’d
build a house inside my sleep big enough for my soul to keep.
Don’t bury me for habit’s sake if I die before I wake.
’Cus insanity’s an awful name for the mind to big to frame
and sensual reality may be just formality
but conversation from day to day doesn’t even start to say
all the hints you need to hear and all the ends you’ve always feared.
What if it was them, not me, who missed the point entirely?
Like time is not a straight-edged line counted up from none to nine(nein).
Waste it on such hollow words just to feel like I’ve been heard.
I think it’s getting pretty hard keeping up with who we
(are you listening) to the sense of what I’m saying?
(can you hear a thing) past the attention you’re not paying?
(ten bucks says) you don’t remember my name
and I’ll take that bet.
(I don’t get why) you’re not never sleeping
(and I don’t get by) without my worry leaking.
(Ten bucks says) there’s more to what you’re seeing
and I’ll take that bet.
Can you count your friends
on a single hand?
Can you count on them
to make more than they spend?
I can count my friends
on a single hand.
I can count on them
to pay back what I lend them.
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from EPs & Singles 2009-2014,
released July 24, 2015
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The Friendly Ghost New London, Connecticut
Hauntin' since '09
Victor Chiburis
Joe Attwater
Hannah Schenk
Josh Marcks
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May 2017
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