Given Take

from Sweet Talk For Pretty Daughters by The Reverend John DeLore

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Given Take
(Words & Music by John DeLore & Matthew Kubacki)

lyrics

If God lives in the country, the desert’s where he goes to pray.
Makes his bed out in the sage and stares up at the Milky Way.

Because sometimes it all gets so heavy,
He’ll be cryin’ till the stars bleed together.
Love has given. Love can take it away.

Sometimes I sing in the country. Oh and sometimes I sing down town.
Sometimes I get a great notion to jump into the ocean and drown.

Because sometimes it all gets so heavy,
I’ll be cryin’ till the stars bleed together.
Love has given. Love can take it away.

Say my name out loud.
Say it in the wild or in a lonely corridor.
Won’t you say it with a silver string?
Let it rain! Let it ring!
Love has given. Love can take it away.

Because sometimes it all gets so beautiful,
I’ll be cryin’ till the stars bleed together.
Love has given. Love can take it away.
Love has given. Love can take it away.

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from Sweet Talk For Pretty Daughters, released October 16, 2012
John DeLore: Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Jay Frederick: Drums
John “Betty” Bettencourt: Bass
Zac Clark: Piano
Rich Hinman: Pedal Steel
Steve Lewis: Electric Guitar

Kara Suzanne: Harmonies

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