Like A Thief

from We Need The Rain by The Bye Bye Blackbirds

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We Need The Rain as nature intended, on limited edition vinyl.

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Like a Thief (Skaught/Robertson)

Full up on words that don’t say
Much about the games people play
Alone in the night
When the wrongs
Won’t come right

Stole all our dreams for a game
Filling the holes up with rain
So you bought a mansion
To keep us warm
And inside

(chorus)
Don’t ever ever pray for love
Don’t ever ever pray for love
Don’t ever ever pray to win my love

Roar into town you summer breeze
Roll out of town like a thief
So we won’t come running
When the whole town’s
Set alight

(chorus)

(bridge)
All we’ve got left is enough

Alone in the night
When the wrongs
Won’t come right

(chorus)

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from We Need The Rain, released November 12, 2013
Bradley Skaught: guitars, vocals; Ian Roberston: lead guitar, vocals; Aaron Rubin: bass; Lenny Gill: drums; Chuck Lindo: vocals; KC Bowman: organ, vocals

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