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Monopoly

from There is Love by Rachel Marie

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lyrics

I watch your shiny car go by
From my little orange cell
And it feels like home, feels like home to me
‘Cause I’ve missed it here, though I miss you well
Last time I was out of here
This pity of a jail
I passed by your estate and I took a chance
But I couldn’t pay the bail

So now I’m back to where I started from
And I never passed “Go” ‘cause I couldn’t outrun
The voices in my mind telling me to find another way
So here I am today

I never learned to play this game
The way it’s supposed to be
‘Cause there’s just too much, too much strategy
And this silly deal seems unreal to me
‘Cause now you’ve turned out all my lights
And it’s much too dark to see
The dog ran off with my “Get Out Free” card
And you still have the key

So now I’m back to where I started from
And I never passed “Go” ‘cause I couldn’t outrun
The monsters in my mind telling me you’d never come around
‘Cause all your lies would pull you down

My old friends come to visit here
And we gossip through the bars
And they said they’d heard, heard around that you
Had gone and switched my cards
So please don’t think I didn’t know
Don’t think I didn’t see
They said you’d hurt me, said you’d hurt me
Said you’d hurt me

You have not won this monopoly
No, you don’t have that kind of control of me
‘Cause you can’t keep jerking the cost
Of the things you’ve gone and lost

So now I’m back to where I started from
And I never passed “Go” ‘cause I couldn’t outrun
The fire in your eyes telling me to rise above your voice
It seems I had no other choice

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from There is Love, released December 22, 2012
Ansel Barnum on harmonica
Rigel Turdiu on percussion

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Rachel Marie Boston, Massachusetts

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Rachel Marie follows in a tradition of unapologetically forthright women folksingers, with songs that hearken to "overstuffed lines of Tori Amos, philosophical turn of Indigo Girls, and lilting vocals like Joni Mitchell." The social awareness of folk meets the introspection of the singer-songwriter tradition with a moderate dose of snark. ... more

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