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Murder Ballads for Lovers

by Ben Senterfit

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My Grandfather Sailed across on the ocean All over this world He’s drifting on the sea He took my wedding ring When I bent down to touch him Still I remember that man In my family Poor grandmother Never had a handle She’d roam from town to town To keep away from the man up north But he’s track her down and write her Preach about the men she lay beside her I remember that man In my family chorus Old man we’re the people that you can’t deceive Don’t tell me you’re a man in the high degree My mind is twisted and confused But you can’t put it together now ‘cause you got nothing left to do His youngest daughter He claimed he didn’t own her He made it crystal clear from the Rockies to the Baltic coast But now the mans no longer living She’ll spend her whole life trying to forgive him She found a picture on his wall That said you’re family She found her picture on his wall That said you’re family Chorus My mother She sailed across the ocean All her life She’s flown across the sea When he took my wedding ring We bent down and touched him And dropped his body down In the dark blue sea Chorus
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Love to Play the Game If I had a single dollar And It cost your love to play Boy I’d throw that paper down and lose your Love to play the game ‘Cause a love can’t last forever Even if you break the rules But the game comes running back to you Like a joker plays the fool And I can’t believe I’m standing here A dollar in my hand And I’m throwing out your love to see If you come running back again And when the game is ended And I’m alone again at last Man I’ll take my arms around your love Like a window to the past I’m standing in the darkness And I’m holding out the blade And I run my fingers down the rail I’m a betting man’s brigade But I’m betting on lost lovers And I’m throwing out your name And I’ running out of time to find A jukebox to serenade Well a man can't run from loving like he can from aches an pains but he can buy himself some time if he can learn to love the game And in the end it stands for nothing but a lonely way to choose between the days that rise and fall and yet another chance to lose
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Undone 04:31

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Acoustic EP that represents the last 3 winters in NY. Dark shit but I'm richer now that these songs have passed through me. Dig!

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released June 24, 2011

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Ben Senterfit Red Hook, New York

Musician, Educator, Songwriter, Dad, Mediocre carpenter.

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