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Artist: Ian Anderson
Canonical path: /ian-anderson/a-hand-of-thumbs
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A Hand Of Thumbs
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A Hand Of Thumbs
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My hand of thumbs is shaking
I am so glad to meet you
All tongue-tied and twisted
My lips stuck like glue
More than a lifetime to say, "How are you?"
More than an ocean to cross becalmed.
Less than a second to sink in silence.
Yours truly, I remain disarmed.
Saw you peeping from the corner.
Your eyes seemed to call hello.
I'm all too easily mistaken,
My feet unsteady as they go.
Was I a suave and confident trickster
I would sweep you up and carry you down
To raspberry meadows under diamond skies
and just mess around.
Just mess around.
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Ian Anderson performs "A Hand Of Thumbs", and this lyric page sits inside the Ian Anderson catalog on LyroVerse.
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