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Adventure Story

from Too Big World by Bumper Jacksons

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Written by Jess Eliot Myhre.

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An adventure story worth all the world in gold
We were young and foolish and you, you were so bold
We crafted a love that young girls only dream of
Spent our evenings doing things that made their mothers want to pray for us

Little birds whose race had just begun
Grinning sleepless, drunk on life and love
You taught me to open my hands to the heavens above

You sat with me in the corn crop and spoke to me slow
Ideas, plans, forevers, the places that we’d go
The little money we made we’d spend it on each other
You were my best friend and then you became my lover

We grabbed the spinning world by its tail
With my ambitious heart, and your big, blue eyes
We climbed on its back with our hearts and our arms open wide

And we held on
And we held on
We projected each other into flight

But like any other story, trouble found us, hovered over our skin
We were broke, restless, and hunger set in
The little money we made, we’d spend on whiskey and beer
The decisions we made we’d choose them out of fear
You wouldn’t hold my hand when we bicycled down the street anymore
Wouldn’t’ write me love poems, or take me on the kitchen floor

I forgot your beautiful eyes
Too clouded to apologize
We didn’t realize, but we had lost what made us alive

But we held on
Yes, we held on
You kept your mouth shut
But I began to bite

And we will hold on
And we will hold on
I’ll keep my mouth shut

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from Too Big World, released July 25, 2015

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The Bumper Jacksons are hot and sweet, painting America's story by scrapping together new sounds from forgotten 78's.  Honored as the region's 2015 "Artist of the Year" and "Best Folk Band" from 2013-2015 at the Washington Area Music Awards, the Bumper Jacksons are playfully creative with their originals and re-imagining roots music with both power and tenderness. ... more

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