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Little White Lie

from Human Harvest by Jim Ballard

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Little White Lie


Downtown look around sunny day holiday crowd
bombs burstin in the air
brass band movin air
real loud
But when the sky is bright
every face is filled with light
you can see the eyes can’t disguise
somethin’s wrong tonight

Where do they go on the 5th of july
when the fireworks are over
back to the livin of the little white lie
til they lay ya down in clover

Fire in the midnight sky
reflects upon the windows
buildings reaching up so high
in the flashing moment throwing shadows
Ah, but in those shadows hide the ones from the other side
of the tracks fallin through the cracks something here ain’t right

Where do they go on the 5th of july
when the fireworks are over
back to the livin of the little white lie
til they lay ya down in clover

(Where do they go, these ones in whose eyes we find our own?
Where do they lay down their heads outside the rain?
In the doorways? In the chevrolets?
No, they are yours and they are mine)

And when the crowd is gone
in the hours before the dawn
embers glow i don’t know....
something’s lost tonight

Where do they go on the 5th of july
when the fireworks are over
back to the livin of the little white lie
til they lay ya down in clover

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from Human Harvest, released June 1, 2012

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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