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Modest Woman

from Into Embers by Joseph Ruddleston

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lyrics

Cool about it,
Never known to stutter,
Simple and static,
Melts the world like butter at her feet,

Keeping composure,
Doesn't lose her temper,
Everyone who knows her,
Likes to know her better, know her well,

When people see her out,
Always been a modest woman,

Human nature measured up this way,
One to wonder whether she would stay,
Human nature, how it lets me down,
Turn to something she cannot retain,

Poised and polished,
Where'd you get your manner?
Won't you acknowledge,
Something in the way you're looking at,

Wholly conceited,
Don't give me that line now,
Under-defeated,
Feeling so divine, she calls to them,

She's all they talk about,
Always just the oddest woman,

Heaven holds her in the highest house,
Start to wonder how she came about,
Human nature how it holds me back,
Keep your heaven, I can do without,
Keep your heaven, I can do without.

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from Into Embers, released November 6, 2013

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Brooklyn-based song-storyteller with all sorts of stuff pouring out of the holes in his voicebox.

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