Recorded during the Split Ends sessions, but left off the album.
lyrics
Marissa’s hanging upside down on the monkey bars at recess, John Adams Elementary
I'm watching from afar while playing tetherball as she tucks her shirt into her jeans
She plays alone, no one dares approach
Marissa she's so tough and mean
I think she’s beautiful but wouldn’t tell a soul
No one likes Marissa but me
Round and round, round and round we go
Where we stop nobody knows
Marissa smokes a cigarette by the door of home ec. and kisses the popular Tommy Shockey
It’s the eighth guy I’ve seen her kiss this semester and still I wish one of them would have been me
She’s rarely home, passed around like a joke
That never was all that funny
All the girls hate her guts, say she’s nothing but a slut
Everyone’s had Marissa but me
She has something inside her
I’m drawn to girls who hide there
Buried in all their mystery
Tearing her insides, I’m wanting to find
The reasons for her misery
Round and round, round and round we go
Where we stop nobody knows
Marissa knocks on my door late at night in the heavy poor to where it hard to tell she’s crying
We sit in my car I hold her tight to keep her warm and she tells me of her story
She tells me of home, the abuse that she’s known
And that she’s aborting the baby
I’ve always regretted the oath that I wouldn’t tell a soul
So no one knows Marissa but me
Round and round, round and round we go
Where we stop nobody knows
Round and round, round and round we go
Then she stopped
credits
from Ashes - EP,
released December 5, 2016
Engineered by Keith Gary
Produced by Robert Steel/Keith Gary
Recorded at Fire Station Studios, San Marcos, TX
Musicians:
Robert Steel: Guitar, Vocals
Andrew Pressman: Bass
Mike Meadows: Percussion
Keith Gary: Keys
Dana Falconberry: Background Vocals
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