Statuettes from Babyland by Jared White

Everyday they try charging me with theft 
As I storm the unborn
Cities feigning sleep
Underneath the cemetery heap 
Where I keep the companions I have torn

Shadow singing you a song underneath a dark moon 
And you know that old tune 
You listened all your life
But listening don't keep a wife
Unless you can tell midnight from noon

And you had a band you called The Statuettes 
With your sister and a couple other Joan Jetts
Running through the blood
Waiting in the vein alone
Your dream beatin' in obscurity 
Like beauty in a heart of stone

I told you of a universe in reverse 
Where the soldiers fall 
Out of their trance as they ride off in a hearse 
And realize they have answered the wrong call

And you had a band you called The Statuettes 
With your sister and a couple other Joan Jetts
Running through the blood
Waiting in the vein alone
Your dream beatin' in obscurity 
Like beauty in a heart of stone

You always knew 
Everything was true
The witnesses are mine 
And they're leaning cross the line
Wondering if you brung your two

And you won't outwit the happily entwined 
On the island of the blessed
The only consolation for your petty persecuting mind 
Is when you find that your crime can be confessed 

And you had a band you called The Statuettes 
With your sister and a couple other Joan Jetts
Running through the blood
Waiting in the vein alone
Your dream beatin' in obscurity 
Like beauty in a heart of stone

• Rock
• americana rock alt-folk
• folk
• greatest of all time
• singer-songwriter
• spiritual
• Kansas