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Noam

from Bomb Songs by Smokeshow

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lyrics

We saw a banjo man in Grass Valley
He had an odd name it was Noam
His waltz about broke my cold Northern heart
And now he’s back in Nashville, his home

So we packed a suitcase for Tahoe
What we climbed was so painful and white
That peak about broke my only two legs
But now I miss that back-country sky

And when I sleep’s when I get all my work done
My mind sifting sands of the day
I close down my two blue and Eerie-born eyes
And I sit in my sandbox and play

Cause when I dream, I dream in Ohio
All the childlike worlds I could make
My feet and my mind running wild, making stories
And footprints in sand that’s like clay

It’s a full life
A full life
We laugh till we cry or it’s almost too much

I wanna see Noam playing the banjo
I wanna ask him if home and Noam rhyme
But I’m just about broke, and he ain’t coming here
And I don’t have the money to fly

I wanna dream in the shade of a palm tree
I want the people I love to live here
But ties can’t be broke, like a sailor-style knot
So New England, you’re far, but you’re dear

I’m gonna sail that lake this summer
The lake that I feel like I own
And hear my mom’s voice as it fills up a room
Instead of tinny and small on the phone

For now my sunfish’s asleep in a shed though
It feels sad cause I gave her a name
Anna is lonely and scared of the dark
But Anna Banana is safe

It’s a full life, full and majestic and lush
A full life
We cry till we laugh or it’s almost too much
Oh it’s almost too much

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from Bomb Songs, released January 24, 2018
feat. George S. Rosenthal on guitanjo

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