Sing Them Away

Words and Music by Todd Lerner

Down on the floor he was down at my feet

He said “Don’t throw me out I’m not really a cheat”

But I couldn’t move I couldn’t speak

I couldn’t believe he would do that to me

Tastes like chalk in my mouth

While I sing him away

Let him go find another woman to betray

I gave her my heart I said “Now take it with you”

They will get me another she would break that one too

With flowers on her vine fruit in her tree

Snakes in her grass and poison all over me

Tastes like chalk in my mouth

While I sing her away

Let her go find another man to betray

Daddy fold me home back to a child

Daddy it hurts real bad fold me home

To mute the world for just a while

Daddy fold me home back to a child

Daddy it hurts real bad fold me home

To mute the world for just a while

Now it’s a quarter to four and the night is a dream

The clock doesn’t move things can’t be how they seem

But the moon doesn’t care and the sun isn’t here

It’s not the same as before I don’t love her anymore

Tastes like chalk in my mouth while I sing him (her) away

Let them go find someone else to betray

(C) Todd Lerner 2017