Name: You Beautiful Sound
Duration: P00H04M53S
Description: Written for a friend who was going through a hard time. A song of encouragement.

You Beautiful Sound

from Expandable by Dave Ihmels

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Written for a friend who was going through a hard time. A song of encouragement.

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Don't turn around
Don’t close the door
Don’t hang your head so you can’t see far anymore
When you look up
And get your head in the air
It’s way cozier up there

Don’t grit your teeth
Don’t wring your hands
Don’t curse the mother who brought you into this land
You belong here on earth
With your feet on the ground
The sight of you here is a beautiful sound

And it turns my ears around
You beautiful sound

Don’t be muddled
Don’t be addled
Don’t let your spirit slip out of the saddle
Go on and ride your mule if you don’t have a horse
And force that son of a gun to stay the course
You’re gonna have to hang on
Though no water be found
Cause the sight of you here is a beautiful sound

I know that time is costly
You’re like a shiny new car
Once you’re driven off the lot
You’re not worth half as much as you thought you were
But just keep on dividing
There’s more of you left behind
And that’s exactly the little piece that I would like to find

Don’t grit your teeth
Don’t wring your hands
Don’t curse the mother who brought you into this land
You belong here on earth
With your feet on the ground
And the sight of you here is a beautiful sound

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from Expandable, released April 8, 2008

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Dave Ihmels Washington, D.C.

I am a performing singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. I write expansive, often experimental, folk-rock music featuring idiosyncratic characters and sonic goodies. I like to put a sparkle around the mundane.

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