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Schubert in America

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If I had a paper doll to love and call my own,
With scissors in my hands to guard my heart that turned to stone,
By morning ceasefire,
maybe I’d retire
The artful dodger’s guidance,
And we’ll just sit in silence.

With a wearied look of prayer and sorrow as her eyes
Hold someone else’s thoughts to think
In her tears of ink, and
I would rather have a paper doll than the shadows of the reason why.

The sharp fruit of a gentle frame,
Littered with an absent name.
Wanton sport of children’s games,
Seek and hide in
Fortresses and bubbles
Of ingenious puzzles.
Afternoon leaves her so pale,
But the rips and tears have their own grace
As she falls back into my frail embrace,
Tighter still as we’re both swept away,
Another windy day.

How I wish to hold her faith in empty amber skies.
Lay down her head beneath the palms,
Wrap her in a coat of arms, and
I would rather have a paper doll than the shadows of the reason why.

Moment’s rest in sand subsides
With the rising of the evening tide…

Either callous fate or an outrageous fortune
Spinning a wheel tenacious as the water’s bend.
And a familiar thief pushes against the ocean,
But with every ebb it flows right back again.

If I had a paper doll to love and call my own,
With scissors in my hands to guard my heart that turned to stone,
By morning ceasefire,
maybe I’d retire
The artful dodger’s guidance,
And we’ll just sit in silence.

All the ways it breaks my hear can never be described.
It’s the pride before the fall.
All at once or not at all, and
I would rather have a paper doll than the shadows of the reason why.

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from Vacations and Experiments, track released July 6, 2015
Jesse Featherstone: Piano/Vocal

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Jesse Featherstone New York, New York

Jazz/classical pianist, composer, percussionist, singer/songwriter trying to survive the music industry in NYC (for the moment).

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