Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Ordinary Elephant with an original song called Adrian. It does not appear on a cd yet.
Recorded at the Noth East Regional Folk Alliance Conference in Stamford Ct in November of 2019.
ordinaryelephant.net
Lyrics:
My thoughts are coming quick
Like birds stealing crumbs
Here and then they’re gone
Before I can grab on
I play the days over
And over again
But nothing ever ends up
Like it should
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
I loved you like a father does
Despite borrowed kinship
And different blood
But you never felt it
You picked apart and pushed away
Every piece of me that I gave
Sent ‘em flying like fence posts
In a hurricane
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
I will pray that it all turns around
While I know that it won’t
Faith remains blind
In the face of what it’s shown
There’s a time to hold on
And a time to let go
But no one here to tell me
Where we are
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
Ordinary Elephant with an original song called Adrian. It does not appear on a cd yet.
Recorded at the Noth East Regional Folk Alliance Conference in Stamford Ct in November of 2019.
ordinaryelephant.net
Lyrics:
My thoughts are coming quick
Like birds stealing crumbs
Here and then they’re gone
Before I can grab on
I play the days over
And over again
But nothing ever ends up
Like it should
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
I loved you like a father does
Despite borrowed kinship
And different blood
But you never felt it
You picked apart and pushed away
Every piece of me that I gave
Sent ‘em flying like fence posts
In a hurricane
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
I will pray that it all turns around
While I know that it won’t
Faith remains blind
In the face of what it’s shown
There’s a time to hold on
And a time to let go
But no one here to tell me
Where we are
You talk to me like a hammer
Nail it in and walk away
Leave me looking for the next
Right thing to say
But I’ve got splinters in my mouth
And I’m starting to doubt
I’ll ever find it
