Lyrics Slight Figure of Speech.lrc The Avett Brothers
[id: sxubqqhg]
[ar: The Avett Brothers]
[al: I and Love and You]
[ti: Slight Figure of Speech]
[length: 02:22]
[00:00.67](What the)
[00:02.34]
[00:08.13]They say you’ve got to lose a couple fights to win
[00:11.60]It’s hard to tell from where I’m sitting
[00:14.37]They say that this is where the fun begins
[00:17.66]I guess it’s time that I was quitting
[00:22.83]A slight figure of speech
[00:26.00]I cut my chest wide open
[00:28.65]They come and watch us bleed
[00:32.01]Is it all like I was hoping now?
[00:37.27]They said “I hope that you will never change”
[00:39.91]I went and cut my hair
[00:42.97]They say “Don’t take your business to the big time”
[00:46.08]I bought us tickets there (uh-huh)
[00:51.49]A slight figure of speech
[00:54.67]I cut my chest wide open
[00:57.40]They come and watch us bleed
[01:00.34]Is it all like I was hoping now?
[01:07.51]What did you expect
[01:08.31]And what did you forget
[01:09.28]That to live you let go of me with each step
[01:10.50]It becomes a progression I won’t let regret manifest
[01:12.05]To aggression
[01:13.36]Are you to assess what I’ve been? What I am? Or become?
[01:15.15]Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb
[01:16.55]It can be to
[01:17.18]Attack those around ’cause you’re
[01:17.52]True to color, a town, a time, or a place?
[01:19.52]It’s not you, it’s not mine
[01:20.93]And besides it is gone
[01:21.78]And you never will find it again
[01:23.13]But I don’t want to fight
[01:23.60]I just ask let me be
[01:24.32]I won’t give the chance to be my enemy
[01:25.33]So go home
[01:26.08]Think it through
[01:28.17]A jet plane and a big idea
[01:31.15]I jump over the sea
[01:33.59]What ifs hot on my trail
[01:36.34]But they can’t catch me, no
[01:41.67]A slight figure of speech
[01:44.76]I cut my chest wide open
[01:48.15]They come and watch us bleed
[01:51.13]Is it all like I was hoping now?
[02:17.35]Year of Release: 2009