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Jug Handle Hill

from Stomp Your Feet by Brother Jack

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This is a weird, stalker style love song.
Although not remotely autobiographical, this is probably the most personal song I have ever written.

lyrics

He lived in words.
He lived in quiet solitude.
He spent his days,
With a little dog named Napoleon.
It would be easy to explain it away,
And to say that he had just snapped.
But it was more like the ocean,
The waves just wearing him away.

He liked to look out the window,
Watch the birds pecking at the earth.
He was partial to prose.
He was a sucker for a romantic verse.
They praised him as a sensitive boy.
Maybe he just cried too much.
She was the only one who ever
Looked him in the eye.

He wore her heart on his sleeve.
Their bloodlines are forever entwined.
He carved her name across his bare chest.
He's the butcher poet of Jug Handle Hill.

He lives in words,
Words that were screaming in his head.
He liked the quiet monotony
Of working down at the store.
And everyday he passes her house,
He's draining out like an hourglass.
But it was more like a pen, scratching paper
'Till the ink was all gone.

He wore her heart on his sleeve.
Their bloodlines are forever entwined.
He carved her name across his bare chest.
He's the butcher poet of Jug Handle Hill.

He liked to look in her window
And see her dancing across her room.
He sent her prose,
Scribbled down on some butcher paper.
One night he stepped out of the shadows.
He came knocking on her door.
She was the only one who ever
Looked him in the eye.

He wore her heart on his sleeve.
Their bloodlines are forever entwined.
He carved her name across his bare chest.
He's the butcher poet of Jug Handle Hill.

He lived in words.
Her words calmed his scattered mind.
She loved his words.
She was a sucker for a romantic verse.

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from Stomp Your Feet, released January 1, 2018

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Brother Jack Altoona, Pennsylvania

Brother Jack gleans inspiration from old fashioned gospel music, foot-stomping drinking songs, and long winded storytellers. He has a love for words, both written and sung. If you like weird folk music and storytelling, check out Brother Jack!

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