This is the Year

from Pickpocket by Eliza Hardy Jones

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lyrics

This was the year, I learned my body was a boat
And the blood in the water is bubbling under inside my throat

Grief is a pickpocket, don't see it coming til it left you broke
Oh Grief is a stranger that steals everything that you knew about yourself, about yourself

This was the year, I kept a secret that felt just like a lie
Even when I was sleeping, I lay in a body that I could not recognize

Never's a long time, so I'll find a way to make peace with what we did
And I'll never sing a song to my daughter or a son, cause they're already dead, already dead

This was the year, I learned the names of my neighborhood birds
And I followed them quietly so as not to frighten their way into the world

Grief is a pickpocket, never see him coming til it left you there for dead
Oh Grief is a stranger that steals everything that you loved about yourself

This was the year that the sky burned around us
And this was the year of the loneliest winter
This was the year that i walked with a shadow
This was the year, this was the year that i learned
To let go.

this was the year
this was the year
this was the year
this was the year
this was the year

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from Pickpocket, track released March 13, 2024
EHJ: keys, guitar, vocals
Charlie Hall: drums, percussion, guitar, mellotron
Nick Krill: additional guitar
Dave Hartley: bass

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Eliza Hardy Jones Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

singer of songs. maker of quilts.

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