Slight Figure Of Speech Lyrics - Live, Vol. 4 - Avett Brothers

They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win 

It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting 

They say that this is where the fun begins 

I guess it's time that I was quitting 

A slight figure of speech 

I cut my chest wide open 

They come and watch us bleed 

Is it art like I was hoping now? 

They said "I hope that you will never change" 

I went and cut my hair 

They say "Don't take your business to the big time" 

I bought us tickets there 

A slight figure of speech 

I cut my chest wide open 

They come and watch us bleed 

Is it art like I was hoping now? 

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What did you expect 

And what did you forget 

That to live you let go of me with each step 

It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest 

To aggression 

Are you to assess what I've been? What I am? Or become? 

Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb 

It can be to 

Attack those around 'cause you're 

True to color, a town, a time, or a place? 

It's not you, it's not mine 

And besides it is gone 

And you never will find it again 

But I don't want to fight 

I just ask let me be 

I won't give the chance to be my enemy 

So go home 

Think it through 

Photos 

A jet plane and a big idea 

I jump over the sea 

What ifs hot on my trail 

But that can't catch me, no 

A slight figure of speech 

I cut my chest wide open 

They come and watch us bleed 

Is it art like I was hoping now?