Name: Me and Delilah
Duration: P00H08M10S
Description: Written by Christian James Guarin.

Me and Delilah

from Gray Day Alabama Blues by Christian James & The Family

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Me and Delilah were sitting by the pond. She was smoking all my cigarettes, staring at the sun. Just before I noticed I was growing fond of her, she stood right up, dusted off, handed me a gun and told me, "Momma knows you're coming, Daddy thinks you're gone, so I'm sure that you have realized just how long I've known that you were never really happy. I never saw you smile. So, I looked back at Delilah, claimed to be a child and told her

"Baby, I'm just trying to get by."

I just don't know how to live, who to trust, how to give my heart to something other than myself. Baby, I feel so obliged to tell you, I am prone to lie. You should not look so surprised when I tell you that I can afford the sky.

I turned my head right down the road, saw everything my life could ever be. Then I clapped my hands for Jesus, and everbody else that I can't see. So, when we reached the river I cracked it open wide, but then I heard the sunshine hit the pavement and found myself believing every word...

That you had ever spoken, or I had ever learned. When you swore that I was broken it came coupled with the concern that the sky was slowly falling on the world as it turned. So, I had the revelation that the heavens may have burned.

I just don't know how to live, who to trust, how to give my heart to something other than myself. Baby, I feel so obliged to tell you I was Born to Die. I will not apologize when I tell you that I'm climbing towards the sky.

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from Gray Day Alabama Blues, released January 20, 2010
Christian James, Brandon, Kevin, Steven, Ryan, Ben.

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