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Here's My Shoes

from Stones, Bones and Boxes by Astra Kelly

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Here’s My Shoes

Don’t you see? We must move ahead
Check out our feet and take the next steps
We cannot continue, we cannot survive
We simply cannot live without opening your mind

You see there’s this place we haven’t been, well of course you cannot see it
C’mon let me take you in, I tell you you won’t believe it
The most sensually exotic, insatiably erotic place I’ve ever been

Turn your head and look at me for the first time in your life

Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there right beside you baby
Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there walking, keeping time
Barefoot beside you


Are you that fucking blind
To think we all just live and die
I have given you my hope
I have given you my heart
I have given you my love and my time and my words and my sight
And my efforts and anger and sex and my pride
And everything I thought you needed to make you realize
Something, anything
And you took all of that. Never listened to a word that I said
Never let me come to a conclusion about if there’s hope for you
I’m sorry to be a little harsh my friend
But things can’t continue as they have been

So listen..
Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there right beside you baby
Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there walking, keeping time
Barefoot beside you

Are you afraid, is that what it is?
Afraid that you actually might find something more intense more primal
More contradictory to anything you’ve ever seen?
Oh, I really think it’s up to you
And I know it’s an easy job to play the fool
And somebody’s got to do it, but baby it can no longer be you
Cuz if I’m in this and I am and you want this as bad as it seems
You gotta give a little, shut up a little, listen to me a little
Quit running away to your safe little world
I’m offering you a chance to see this thru

Let me take you
Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there right beside you baby
Here’s my shoes
Just put em on and I would be there walking, keeping time
Barefoot beside you

Honey, at this point you really got nothing to lose

I would be right there for you
I would be there for you

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from Stones, Bones and Boxes, released January 1, 1996
Acoustic guitar/vox: Astra

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Astra Kelly San Diego, California

With a lyric-based, melodic sound and soaring vocals, Astra fuses her Chicago roots in blues and soul
with indie folk and alt-country. The lyrics read like poetry, speaking of emotional transformation and freedom. She's been nominated for nine SD Music Awards, her music video was showcased in the SD Film Fest. She wears many hats in the industry including helping others find their music mojo. ... more

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