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You used to be my Brush

from Cenotaph Tapes by John Carroll

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You used to be my brush
and I was on canvas
Nothing more than an outline
Nothing less than a shadow

You taught me how to lift myself
From the tea stain on this grimy page
Sometimes I slip back again
But mostly, I’ve learned to paint

You used to be my cane
When I was hardly able
Nothing more than a whip,
Nothing less than a stroke of good luck.

You used to hold up seashells
To your ears just for the feeling
But now the feeling's gone
Now, the feelings gone

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from Cenotaph Tapes, released April 12, 2014

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John Carroll Hangzhou, China

John Carroll is a songwriter and artist from Limerick, Ireland. Carroll's songs can be introspective acoustic narratives, or tongue-in-cheek tunes about acrophobic atheist taikounauts, all topped off with lashings of lyrics and phrases influenced by his adopted home in Hangzhou, China. ... more

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