Not Over By Half - Joan Shelley

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Not Over By Half Lyrics

You've torn your shirt
You've outgrown this town
Your friends are all scattered
And you're lonesome
But you're still searchin'
For music in the sounds
It's a tame world will leave you unbroken
Oh lady, oh mother
Bring your garden to me
Pull it 'round my body
So the world cannot see
Blue of my veins
And the tracks on my cheeks
Leave the tulips for when I go under
But it's not over by half
There's a gold in your eyes
Loomin' out through the black
And you're still standing
And your hand on your lap
No it's not over, not over by half
When that day comes
And the lights grow dim
The weight off your shoulders
The sun off your skin
And the ones who have known you
Your lovers and friends
Will be marked by a spark that was taken
But it's not over by half
There's a gold in your eyes
Loomin' out through the black
And you're still standing
And your hand on your lap
No it's not over, not over by half
Here on the mountain
I am thinking of you
The birds are all singing
The screaming of youth
And here I am holding
Keeping room
Just a place you can lay when you're older
But it's not over by half
There's a gold in your eyes
Loomin' out through the black
And you're still standing
And your hand on your lap
No it's not over, not over by half

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Joan Shelley is an American singer-songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky. Her warm and mellifluous voice evokes both the deep south and west coast, drawing from both old-time country and sixties folk.

A talented songwriter and prolific performer, Shelley splits her time between solo outings and collaborations with other area musicians like Daniel Martin Moore and Joe Manning, with whom she issued the albums Farthest Field (2012) and Outside Stay Outside (2014), respectively, and with the old-timey music trio Maiden Radio, which also features the talents of Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Mize.

Shelley released her solo début Ginko in 2012, followed by the No Quarter-issued Electric Ursa in 2014 and Over and Even in 2015. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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