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The Ballad of Peter and Jane

from The Ballad of Peter and Jane (digital) by Sarah Birch

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A duet

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Jane: You're wasting my time man, it's early and you're good and drunk
Peter: Oh, Don't be naive we're all twisted and down on our luck
Jane: I'm making the bed up around you, you're sleeping alone
Both: Sleep alone most of these nights since your body went cold
Don't feel like doing more, I'll sleep more sweetly on the floor

Peter: All I can hear when you're screaming is rattles and moans
Jane: All I know is you just don't hear me, I'm shattered you're stoned
Peter: And when it goes quiet you sulk in your room
Jane: Quietly hiding and hopelessly loving you
Both: Don't feel I can do more
Im here, ain't that enough

You're making my face ache, all your tallied up mistakes no it can't go on, surely
It's making me age, I've already gone grey and it can't go on
It's hard to forgive when I don't even know what it is I forgive
It's emotional habit, I can't step around it
It's no way we should live.

Peter: You're beautiful when you are sleeping, it catches my breath
Creases and such gentle breathing, so hard to detect
Both: I know I should tell you aloud, I'm happy you're mine
But they are not words I can muster you must realise

Jane: I don't think that you even notice when I am not home
That all of my thoughts are about you when I am alone
Both: I know I should tell you aloud, I'm happy you're mine
But we seem to function this way and have most of our lives
Don't feel we need to say more
I know what this silence is for.

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from The Ballad of Peter and Jane (digital), track released April 19, 2019
Written and performed by Sarah Birch
Guitar and vocal - Joel Morgan
Trumpet - Dale Ryan
Cello - Mavron String Quartet
Recorded and produced by Dave Milsom, Death Monkey Records

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Sarah Birch Swansea, UK

Sarah Birch is a singer-songwriter living in Swansea. A former member of Lost Tuesday Society and current member of Dark and Twisties, More music coming soon.

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