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Album: Miscellaneous (2006)
Artists: Indigo Girls

  1. 1 2 3
  2. All Along The Watchtower
  3. Always Be There
  4. American Tune
  5. Anyone But Myself
  6. Anyway I Love You
  7. Beauty To Disaster
  8. Blood And Fire
  9. Carry Me Away
  10. Cedar Tree
  11. Center Stage
  12. Clues To You
  13. Cold As Ice
  14. Color Me Grey
  15. Crazy Game
  16. Daddys All Gone
  17. Dont Give Up On Me Baby
  18. Dont Know Your Name
  19. Dont Think Twice
  20. Draw The Line
  21. Erase The Pain
  22. Everybodys Waiting
  23. Falling Star
  24. Finlandia
  25. Free Through Eternity
  26. Get Together
  27. Girl On A Train
  28. Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands
  29. Half Moon Cafe
  30. Hammer And A Nail
  31. Hand In Hand
  32. Hand Me Downs
  33. Heartache Central Time
  34. Hey Jesus
  35. High Horse
  36. History Of Us
  37. Holy City
  38. I Dont Wanna Know
  39. I Shall Be Released
  40. If You Live Like That
  41. Ill Give You My Skin
  42. Jonas Ezekial
  43. Keeper Of My Heart


Indigo Girls
Miscellaneous
Hammer And A Nail
Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Nomads.Indians.Saints

Hammer and a Nail
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(Emily Saliers)

Clearing webs from the hovel
A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep, I always do.
I see my fate on the surface
I look a lot like Narcissus
A dark aabyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.

I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes.
Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts

My life is part of the global life
I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring.

Lyrics reprinted WP/FYC by Trip N. Gregory
Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle
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