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String of Pearls

from In Midtown by David Hakan

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lyrics

String of Pearls

G Em
I knew better than to try to bluff
D C
in five card stud anymore.
But Blue Eye Sven was checking his watch
and turning towards the door.
It was now or it was never.
I'd tempted the hornet's sting.
The sirens came and you could feel the tension
break just like a string.

Am D
I grabbed my I.O.U.s but it didn't matter.
It was freedom we all were after.
From the dumpster I saw them scatter
G D C
like a string of pearls across the floor.
G D C G
Like a string of pearls across the floor.

Time does funny things to my mind
but it ticked away on her wrist.
I held the scraps of my new sports coat.
Worthless tickets were in her fist.
She let her blond hair all escape
by pulling a single pin.
She asked me point blank why I didn't call.
I began to dig myself in.

I wanted so much to confess,
but lies trickled in till I'd made a mess.
(She stood and) brushed my excuses off her dress
like a string of pearls across the floor.
Like a string of pearls across the floor.

Fate works her miracles thru pistons and rods.
I broke down on Evening Star Road.
I could see her cold smile clear in my mind
as I wearily tried to unload.
With toolbox and light I clung to some hope,
but my mouth went suddenly dry.
My life had ground down like an engine abused
and I kept asking myself why.

I'd lost my timing or my timing chain.
I was started by thunder, whipped by rain.
Tiny bits tumbled down again and again
like a string of pearls across the floor.
Like a string of pearls across the floor.





Now I've sunk to the lowest of the social classes,
small town U.S.A.
I'm walking thru ghost towns on the Sante Fe Trail
the backbone in decay.
A boy on a bike turns the other way
as I cross this empty Main Street.
Where are the fortunes we held in our hands?
Where are those rainbows sweet?

Paint is the first thing to come off the walls.
Only the pay phones live in these City Halls.
Rural America's best dreams fall
like a string of pearls across the floor.
Like a string of pearls across the floor.

Words And Music By David B. Hakan 10-29-98

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from In Midtown, released June 22, 1999

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