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Come Clean (April)

from the Solitary Songs by Miriam Jones

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I wrote this near the end of March and rang in the new project. My challenge was getting through a whole take without messing up the guitar part (all the picking, you see) or the vocal which I recorded at the same time, wanting to make sure I could be comfortable performing it live happily enough. I need more practice to be able to do more of what I want with my voice while still plucking away, but now I know.
As promised, a simple arrangement: I added another guitar, my Taylor capo'd up, plucking chords to fill it out a bit, and then a tiny bit of backing vocal. Learning lots already and looking forward to working on more new songs - stay tuned!

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It came out furiously “why won’t you just let me be?”
“Can’t I just do what I do-you know I don’t even think that I asked you”

And I watched your face fall - the color rising
You fell behind while I rushed to right me
I break my heart when I break your life-line
By disregarding you on the side-lines

But can I come clean with you? I want to come clean…will you let me come clean with you

Things that I wouldn’t see you bring before me daily
The light I throw in the dark, and then the dark in my own pretty heart

I watch my height fall, but something true there
Cause I don’t feel small now that I’m down here
I stare across to the eyes before me
Right on the level and love implores me

Go on and come clean
I want for you to come clean
So go, go on and come clean

We sit in silence and I’m ashamed now
along a church bench we are the same now
I say I’m sorry I didn’t mean to, will you forgive me? you know I need you
To be myself to be someone else too, to wallow with me in knowing Grace who
Walks beside us in all our weakness, in all our anger, in all our speeches
Of what we know, and what we deserve and all the reasons we think we shouldn’t

Have to come clean
We don’t wanna come clean
We know we need to come clean

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from the Solitary Songs, released April 1, 2009

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Miriam Jones Victoria, British Columbia

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"Quite apart from that this album is extraordinary on its own merits there are few artists willing to expose their talents to such a sparse instrumental background, and you need to listen to it and discover its beauty for yourself."
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