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Pieces of My Golden Heart

from Songs for Placement and Licensing by Ira Marlowe

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I know more than three chords
I don’t read music
I live in a cardboard box outside the art museum
I miss all my old friends
Don’t like my new friends
I’d feel sorry for them, but they’re just like me

And it wasn’t long ago I thought
That this could never happen
I passed out quarters
Like pieces of my golden heart

Real smart in high school
Couldn’t take college
Sometimes when it rains I hit the art museum
I look at the paintings
There’s one of a lady
She covers up and turns away before I see

And it wasn’t long ago I thought
That this could never happen
I rolled off dollar bills
Like pieces of my golden heart

I looked for a real job
They said I was crazy
Sent me to a man, he gave me pills and things
I did like he told me
But that made me crazy
Walkin’ ‘round this world and I could not feel a thing

And it wasn’t long ago I thought
That this could never happen
I helped my sister do her homework while my mother slept
I made up songs about the blues and Charlie Chaplin
A dozen verses
Like pieces of my golden heart

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from Songs for Placement and Licensing, released September 15, 2020

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Ira Marlowe

Ira Marlowe's songs have appeared in indy films, been featured on NPR and Dr. Demento, and received a Parent's Choice Award. He's taught songwriting at UC Berkeley and penned the tunes for four shows by a Tony-winning theatre troupe.

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