Name: pillar of salt
Duration: P00H04M25S
Description: The drawing associated with the track is part of a lyrical coloring book, included in the physical packaging for the album. Dan Grissom did the letter press and silk screening work, and Alexa drew the illustrations in the book.

pillar of salt

from It's a Good Life Honey If You Don't Grow Weary by Alexa Woodward

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The drawing associated with the track is part of a lyrical coloring book, included in the physical packaging for the album. Dan Grissom did the letter press and silk screening work, and Alexa drew the illustrations in the book.

lyrics

There was no wind to set the sail
there was no singing nightingale
there was nothing in that whale
but me

Drinking form the broken cup
with the finish so abrupt
I know that I’m made up of clay and bone

Chorus:
In the bowl of morning
I’ve been left for naught
you tell me I’m the potter
you tell me I’m the pot

and oh, so it goes
I am paper and stone
the water only flows
from a crack in the temple
of clay and bone

I used to hear the preachers preach
I don’t hear them anymore
I bow before the birds and I sing only for the poor

now the tavern is my church
I love the eulogies
the way the holy spirits
flow inside of me

Chorus

In the bowels of some beast
a single anthem rings
an honest coward sings
a towering offering

I’m a pillar made of salt
and I know it ain’t my fault
I was born wide eyed

Chorus

I’m a pillar made of salt
and I know it ain’t my fault
I was born wide eyed

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from It's a Good Life Honey If You Don't Grow Weary, released March 15, 2011

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