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Just Like Jack

from Postcards From Downtown by Dayna Kurtz

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he called me his sweet angel
& he called this sad town heaven
for a time i saw it through him
& i’ve appreciated that

and you-you talk just like him
full of poetry & visions
you don’t see things as they are
you’re making mansions out of shacks

and you’ll be thinking deep thoughts as you’re sneaking out the back
‘cause you’re just like jack. you’re just like jack.

your lips will taste like whiskey
from the local sugarshack
you’ll tell me that i’m pretty
though you’re probably just bored

and everyone will love you
‘cause you blew the dust off this town
you’ll leave everybody wanting
what they didn’t want before

and you would touch us all so deep, but you won’t let us touch you back
‘cause you’re just like jack. yeah, you’re just like jack

with all i got to keep me here -
the baby & my mother
i’ll probably live forever
& have nothing new to say

but don’t you ever cross a river
with that restless heart of yours
you got nothing to hold onto
you’ll just get swept away

but you’ll be beaming like a floodlight when the night is thick & black
‘cause you’re just like jack. you’re just like jack.

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from Postcards From Downtown, released April 3, 2004

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Dayna Kurtz New Orleans, Louisiana

Dayna Kurtz is the kind of artist who inspires wild-eyed zealotry among her fans, and there are 3 reasons for it: 1, she's an artist's artist, one whose whiskeyed, determined alto often earns her comparisons with Nina Simone; 2 while Europeans adore her, she's obscenely underappreciated in her own country; and 3, her songs straddle a difficult space between jazz, rock, and folk, & are pure poetry. ... more

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