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The Thief

from Friendly Fire by Black Water

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about two thieves, really, and a friend who is far away in a dangerous place

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I spend my evenings looking through catalogs
changing channels, complaining nothin’s on
while you are half a world away
and your sleeping on the ground
while a television thief dangles
as a crowd

gathers around a tree
pelts him with
stones, he said
“grab his feet
and swing him around”

What guilt
What shame
White/What guilt
White/What shame
Yeah

I was born into this war
I was captured
and traded
made out to be a whore

i don't fight for diamonds
i don't fight for peace
i don't fight for honor
most days i fight to eat

Come on back your house is not enough
Your letters are not enough
Come on back this house is not enough

Oh there's nothing, nothing I can do
I'd come to take you
There’s nothing I can say
You’d stay, you’d stay

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from Friendly Fire, released August 12, 2012

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Black Water lived by the jam, and died by the jam.

2009 - 2013

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