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Fragile Truce

from Third Time Around by Dead Beat Daddios

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lyrics

Fragile Truce (P Cumming)

When everyone has gone and things are cleared away
Is when my friend decides that she has things to say
She decides that there are things that must be said
When it’s late in the evening and time for bed

So I sit down at the kitchen table way too drunk
To hear about the depths to which I have sunk
All my misdemeanours and my petty crimes
She says you just make me so mad sometimes

Chorus
And so for hours I hurl abuse
I’m saying things I shouldn’t, I’ve no excuse
And there’s no compromise we can produce
We go to bed with a fragile truce

Early next morning while my thoughts are blurred
She gets up and leaves the room without a word
She gets up and as she’s leaving slams the door
And I try to work out what went on the night before

So I stagger to the kitchen and ask her why
She won’t talk to me and she starts to cry
She says why is it always me that must be strong
I thought I loved you but I must be wrong

You say you’ll change, I know you never will
And I don’t want to watch you fulfil
The death wish you embarked on in your wasted youth
Try to sober up and face the truth

I try to hold her but she turns away
So I try to find the right thing to say
I try to tell her I’ll stop drinking now
And I don’t want to believe it, but I don’t know how

There’s this demon inside my head
That makes lie of every word I’ve said
And though sobriety is such a curse
Life without her would be so much worse

Chorus
But saying sorry won’t reduce
The flood of tears, it’s just no use
I’ve broken promises with no excuse
I’ve got try and keep this fragile truce

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from Third Time Around, released September 20, 2015
Hugh Martin (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Jim Carden (drums, percussion), Mal McBeath (bass)

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Dead Beat Daddios Melbourne, Australia

Story songs about love, landscapes, misfits and mistakes, set to tuneful alt-country grooves.

"Great music in the country and kinda-country genres isn’t just for those of us here in the southern states. There are tunes brewing in Brisbane, as the Dead Beat Daddios prove."
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