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Johnny Appleseed

from Hot Love by buttercup

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“johnny appleseed” (sanden)

johnny took a burlap sack and tied it
johnny had started to row
he said, “maybe momma I won’t make it back.”
momma said, “I don’t want know.”
but if you have got to I don’t even want to know
darlin’ baby give em’ what you’ve got to sow
but I don’t even want to know

how there is soul even in the smallest seed
I’ve seen it I should know

oh! darlin’ baby why do you drive me crazy?
sleeping so lonely in a log with a wolf?

there’s darkness all around in the dawning winter
I can feel it way down in my bones
so when I look out on the golden orchard
I can almost taste the snow

courage is only everything I needed to hold
and self denial
I needed to let it go
but surely you wanted to know

how could a man forgo everything and sleep outside with the wolf?

oh! darlin’ baby why do you drive me crazy?
sleeping so lonely in a log with the wolf?
you’re darker and stranger
I saw it in you, baby
smarter, even god-sized
alone with the truth

so when I look out on that golden orchard
I can almost taste the snow
I can feel it coming down in frozen clouds
clouding over our souls

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from Hot Love, released May 20, 2006
writer: erik sanden

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