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Alma Cook – 5000 Candles NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2019
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Let's be friends! • • Facebook: / hearalma • • IG/Twitter: @HearAlma • • Email: [email protected] • -- • Listen to Alma's full-length album, Tactics, now: • • iTunes: http://apple.co/2198aEC • • Amazon: http://amzn.to/1ptXKBE • • Spotify: http://bit.ly/24c43cB • -- • 5000 Candles • • Originally performed by Alma Cook • • Written by Alma Cook • -- • LYRICS: • There’s a lot people running their mouth • That don’t stay the night, never come through town • And some other people running about • That don’t take the time to suss you out • Still, some of us, every night • We make a toast to you, like, “Isn’t it nice • That somebody had the presence of mind • To speak over you, ‘Let there be light’?” • I know it doesn’t make me one of a kind • That I came to you at an opportune time • And it doesn’t mean I’m one of the guys • But I’m grateful you came opened my eyes • Still, none of us, up in the play • We don’t think enough about the beauty we make • It’s all work here, every day • But when the lights go out, it’s then that I say • Sight to behold • Nothing you could do would make me go • We’ll let the world judge what they don’t know • Giving me a heartbeat • Making me never wanna leave • We’ll let the world judge ‘cause they don’t see • 5000 candles • 5000 candles burning bright • All the light you could handle • 5000 candles here at night • They keep telling me it’s only a phase • And that soon enough, I’ll see that i’m crazy • For loving you the way that I do, • Because who could love somebody like you? • They say you’re too, too, too damn small • And I won’t pretend it don’t matter at all • But no matter what the trouble ahead, • I still won’t regret this time that I spent • CHORUS • I wanna know who did that • Show me the match that lit that sky • Look at all those candles • Ode to the light that caught my eye • I never could forget that • Stealing my breath I don’t mind • 5000 candles • 5000 candles here at night
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