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A Gentler Hand

from Toska by Red Mouth

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lyrics

When I was a boy once I ran away from home
I didn't get very far, around a few corners and down a couple streets
My Daddy he looked for me, he came and he found me
But he wasn't mad at me though, in fact, he was crying

He said, "Son, you're gonna find, in this world, that sometimes it takes a gentler hand"
My mother now, well she was crying, too

She seemed mad at me though, she was just crying and shaking me
She kept whining inbetween her sobs, "Boy, how could you do this to me?"
But I couldn't help but think to myself, "Do this to YOU?"

He said, "Son, you're gonna find, in this world, that sometimes it takes a gentler hand"

I found myself walking home from school one day and I saw someone sitting there, crying
She was the odd girl, the weird girl, but really not any lower than me
She looked up at me with something in her eyes and her panties down around her feet
She looked up at me like she wasn't expecting nothing

He said, "Son, you're gonna find, in this world, that sometimes it takes a gentler hand"

Now I'm an old man just wishing that I could be a young man again
Soup and a brownie they bring me for dinner after a sandwich they bring me at three
And I look back at my life all splayed out here on these white sheets
And I wasn't privileged and poor and wasn't good but I knew what it was to cry

He said, "Son, you're gonna find, in this world, that sometimes it takes a gentler hand"

credits

from Toska, track released October 28, 2014
Red - Vocals, Guitar
Cody - Guitar, Grand Piano
Jimbo Hart - Upright Bass
Chad Gamble - Drums
Kate Tayler Hunt - Violin
Louisa Murray, Jessica Rothstein - Backing Vocals

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Red Mouth Muscle Shoals, Alabama

A strange brew of Son House, Captian Beefheart, Elvis and Nick Cave, backboned by stomping, driving Muscle Shoals rhythms. All resulting in a gospel experience through a gothic Alabama that your typical singer songwriters won't be guiding you anytime soon. ... more

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