Put You Down

from Sanctuary Salt by Joplin Rice

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A masterpiece needs an eyewitness
I can’t be recovered
I don’t need forgiveness
Show me how you put me down
You’re always eager to please a crowd
The colors come and my fever runs
I thought this was CPR but you were sucking my thumb
In the back of a car like it was chewing gum

All I said was that I never want to put you down
I wasn’t making a promise
All I said was that I never want to put you down
But then I let you down

Unobstructed and unclouded judgment
Pillars of love in a fatal republic
Deeply and dearly held
Beginning to feel unwell
Many thanks for the arrangements
We didn’t like them
They’re in the basement
Next to the altars & saints
There’s something about that face you make

All I said was that I never want to put you down
I wasn’t making a promise
All I said was that I never want to put you down
I wasn’t making a promise then
All I said was that I never want to put you down
But then I let you down

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from Sanctuary Salt, released July 30, 2021

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Joplin Rice Lexington, Kentucky

Joplin Rice is a songwriter living in Richmond, Kentucky.
He has released numerous other albums both under his own name and as Ezra Triste.
Every band he forms dies.

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