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Sometimes magic will shock you
Like a rusty winter doorknob
Sometimes magic will call to you,
"Come here my child, nestle in my bra."

For too long, for too long
I swore I was all wrong.
For too long, for too long.

Hettie left the market
With a pillowcase full of matches and straw
She burned the tallest scarecrow
Her father's plantation ever saw.

"For too long, for too long," she said,
"I swore I was all wrong.
For too long, for too long."

Hettie, hold me steady
When I kneel
My balance is off

Sometimes magic will fool you
With a cheap plastic Halloween mask
Sometimes magic will chase you through alleys
Full of reincarnated bats.

For too long, for too long
I swore I was all wrong.
For too long, for too long.

Hettie, hold me steady
When I kneel
Hettie, hold me steady
When I kneel
My balance is off
My balance is off

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from Brave Ink, released April 12, 2014

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Patient Barney Penrose Richmond, Virginia

"As a lyricist, Patient Barney Penrose shares a vividness with Matt Berninger of The National, expressing himself with melancholic, literate concision. These are lyrics that read well without a melody. An extension of an obvious literary talent, they embellish his dulcet arrangements."

Julian Belvedere, HY.GEN.IC London
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