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Eye for an Eye

from Painted Birds by Janie Christensen

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Intro - Is this really how
We were meant to live
Throw our sticks and stones
Break each others’ bones
Never to forget
Or forgive.

Cho - Let’s not make mountains
Out of molehills
No need to build them up so high
Let’s try our hand at
Love and forgiveness
Oh what’s the use in a tooth for a tooth
Or an eye for an eye.

1 - Look at how much time we spend
Just finding fault again, again
And wishing that the one was like the other.
See how hard we concentrate
So diligently calculate
Forever keeping score on one another.

Cho - Repeat

2 - Look at us so quick to find
They’re not like us that other kind
So slow to see the deeper ties that bind us
all
We’re caught inside our history
Defining us for centuries
That keeps us separated by these ancient
walls.

Cho + tag - Let’s not make mountains
Out of molehills
No need to build them up so high
Let’s try our hand at
Love and forgiveness
Oh what’s the use in a tooth for a tooth
How many years till we realize
We never needed a stone for a stone
Or an eye for an eye.

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from Painted Birds, released June 1, 2011
Music & lyrics: Janie Christensen
Piano, vocal: Janie Christensen

Recorded & produced by Janie Christensen &
Angelo Ficara
Mastered by Scott Petito at NRS Recording Studio

Crazy Lanterns Music/ASCAP

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