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Artist/Band: The Avett Brothers
Lyrics for Song: Slight Figure Of Speech
Lyrics for Album: I and Love and You [2009]



They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win

It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting

They say that this is where the fun begins

I guess it's time that I was quitting



A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?



They said "I hope that you will never change"

I went and cut my hair

They say "Don't take your business to the big time"

I bought us tickets there



A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?



What did you expect

And what did you forget

That to live you let go of me with each step

It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest

To aggression

Are you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become?

Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb

It can be to

Attack those around 'cause you're

True to color, a town, a time, or a place?

It's not you, it's not mine

And besides it is gone

And you never will find it again

But I don't want to fight

I just ask let me be

I won't give the chance to be my enemy

So go home

Think it through



A jet plane and a big idea

I jump over the sea

What ifs hot on my trail

But that can't catch me, no



A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?


Album Lyrics: I and Love and You [2009]


The Avett Brothers
"I and Love and You [2009]"


1. And It Spread
2. Ill With Want
3. Incomplete And Insecure
4. It Goes On And On
5. January Wedding
6. Laundry Room
7. Slight Figure Of Speech
8. Ten Thousand Words
9. Tin Man