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Let Me Love You Like a Pauper Does

from The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again by The American West

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There's a brushfire tickling a cloudless sky,
The flames are pushing past the eastern ridge.
This Santa Ana wind is kicking in,
Sucking all the water from my skin.

There's a dust storm moving past the grazing land
All my memories have turned to sand
An old wedding dress flaps in the wind
Still I'm haunted by our kiss.

Would you let me love you like a pauper does?
Full of fire, and always afraid
That our love will always go unnamed.
You'll grow tired of me someday.

There's nothing in this wasted land,
What's gone is gone, there's nothing to forgive.
And the farmhand cracks his withered limbs,
They say the soot will bring us back again.

But the blackened hill don't call out my name.
The desert hides the secret of our fate.
Stripped of all identity and left,
Our sallow teeth form puddles in the rain.

Would you let me love you like a pauper does?
Full of fire, and always afraid
That our love will always go unnamed.
You'll grow tired of me someday.

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from The Soot Will Bring Us Back Again, released March 17, 2017

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