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String

from Strange Life by Frank Zappia

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STRING

Run it through our fingers and our thumbs
Hold it up, examine what we done to it
Stretch it out at both ends
We wrap it 'round our hearts
Tying us together
Will this be forever?

If we can't tell how long it is,
I guess we'll just have to sit with it

You think we're hangin' by a thread
I say it's a stretch
Wire and twine
I hope we never get them crossed again

Borrowed time will it suspend the
inevitability of even
the strongest rope wearing thin

and if we can't tell how long it is,
I guess we'll just have to sit with it
and if we can't tell how long it is,
I guess we'll just have to sit with it

and if we talk on our tin can telephones
would you hold the line until we're home
Home again

We open up our palms and lay a piece of string
along our lifelines
Yours next to mine
and measure the length

Forming our conceptions of the
inextensible
Until then, we'll just stay the link

and if you can't tell how long it is,
I guess we’ll just have to sit with it
and if we can't tell how long it is,
I guess we'll have to sit with this
and if we can't tell how long it is,
I guess I'll just have to sit with this
and if we can't tell how long it is,
I guess I'll just have to sit with it

until we're home

until we're
home

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from Strange Life, released December 21, 2019
Words by Frank Zappia
Music by Frank Zappia and Michael Slater (who played and composed the electric guitar solo in the mid-section - thank you Michael!)
Also, thank you Ivan Skrtic for your awesome "finger clicks"!

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Frank Zappia Canberra, Australia

Frank Zappia is a piano player, composer, singer/songwriter from Canberra, Australia. Frank showcases his gentle musical style, melodically and dynamically through his original songs, pop covers and instrumental piano compositions.

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