Build A Home (Live at La Cigale, Paris, 1997)

from Megiddo (Deluxe) by Lauren Hoffman

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lyrics

I need to be alone tonight
This city and her streets
A cardboard sign reads
Help me
And I walk on
And I run

I touch you and you feel me
I'm a river, I'm burning, I'm a thief
I leave you and your skin and your beauty
I leave you and your beauty and your teeth

Can you see this blaze flared up
From the spark of you
Now this trick I've played
Makes me your slave
I'll burn you out
I'll start again

I saw my name in your hand
I turned around and ran
But to you or from you
It's all the same
To you or from you
It's the same thing

He says we're all alone
He builds himself a home
He builds it out of hair and teeth and fingernails and bones
He hides it in his heart
Then tears it all apart
He plasters all the pieces up with glue and calls it art
He's a man with two left shoes
He's a pretty cockatoo
His song is full of sadness
But he's beautiful in blue

And I need to be alone tonight
I need to be alone tonight

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from Megiddo (Deluxe), released February 5, 2021
Lauren Hoffman - Vocals, Guitar
Scot Fitzsimmons - Bass
Drums - Johnny Hott

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Lauren Hoffman Los Angeles, California

music is exceptionally useful for communicating the nuance and complexity of the human experience because it is an emotional language, we process and respond to it in a different way than thoughts, beyond the limits of linguistics. that's why it's special and mysterious and i love it. that's why i write and sing and play instruments and make records. that's why i share my songs with you. ... more

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