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La Gioconda

from Benjamin by Brooks Strause

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You'll fall for the oldest trick in the book on the wrong end of a knowing look. The empty night is black as death and all there is is blood and breath. That wizard there is praying high to the Lady smiling in the sky. You'll laugh as liberty takes off her cloak and maybe you will get the joke. The looming world, it fluctuates and threatens as it tempts the fates and circumstance is flying by. So's the Lady smiling in the sky. She is a line in the sand, a line between the left and the right hand. Contradiction, pure and sweet, to sweep the seekers off their feet, to make all of their little heads spin and the words can't ever find it, but it is there and we don't need to be reminded. Oh elegance! You'll go as far as your interest goes, ends of the earth or tip of your nose. The careful man must give his word and care not if his pleas are heard and mostly he just wonders why with the Lady smiling in the sky. You'll fall for the oldest trick in the book on the wrong end of a knowing look.

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from Benjamin, released September 4, 2020
BS - lead vocal, classical guitar, bass guitar, tambourine, electric guitar, organ, backing vocal
LS - piano, drums, backing vocals

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