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Simple + Plain

from Own Way Home by Sonia Tetlow

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It’s been a long hot summer
a real slow lumbering of blank day after day
and though you couldn’t have been any colder
and my bones are fast getting older
I’m still sweatin’ it out for parcels of pay

I don’t know no way but to speak about it simple and plain
It’s such a shame to say what you’ll do when you don’t
so what you don’t do sullies what you say

well you can really play the charmer, spinning wheels of spinning yarns
but I just see you as a preacher on the stage
selling a better world, a brighter new, whatever sounds the best to you is true
til your words rot hollow in their graves

I don’t know no way but to speak about it simple and plain
It’s such a shame to say what you’ll do when you don’t
so what you don’t do sullies what you say

don’t let my conscience get in your way
I’m just a pawn inside your game

so I gotta keep myself together, gotta keep it in the road
keep my eyes on the prize, don’t let the ghosts choke out my soul
I gotta keep myself in motion, even if I gotta run
Cuz if I stop long enough to think I break down for no reason

I don’t know no way but to speak about it simple and plain
It’s such a shame to say what you’ll do when you don’t
so what you don’t do sullies what you say

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from Own Way Home, released November 13, 2012
Eric Bolivar, drums; Craig Klein, trombone; Mary Lasseigne, bass; Alex McMurray, lead electric guitar; Matt Perrine, sousaphone; Sonia Tetlow, electric guitar & vocal.

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Sonia Tetlow Atlanta, Georgia

Sonia Tetlow is musician who studies the craft of song, a songwriter who performs with abandon, giving herself freely to the moment of live music making. Her music blends Atlanta indie and hints of punk rock with the New Orleans rhythms of her roots. She has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with artists such as Patti Smith, Indigo Girls, and Paul Sanchez and the Rolling Road Show. ... more

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