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Artist: The Wave Pictures
Canonical path: /the-wave-pictures/chestnut
Related lyric paths: 6
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Chestnut
Read Chestnut lyrics by The Wave Pictures on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Chestnut
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The facts of my life then, laid out like tea leaves
Your mouth glistened like a kitchen
Your adam's apple rattled like a kettle
I put soapy bubbles on my face
I looked just like father christmas
Twelve others wounded with drink on the deck
I haven't slept through the night once this year yet
I said I liked your smile
No wait, that's not right
It's that you looked like you walked out of the movies
Crying and shaking, shaking and crying
I was your witness, I was your witness
I was your witness then
For just a moment I forgot your chestnut hair
In the mirror, in the frame of a desiccated shack
On stilts like a monster gaping mouth
Rising up out of the south
Rising up out of the south
And the hall smelled of new shoes
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