Can You Give It a Face?
. 11/15/2007
by Tom Flannery
copyright 2007 (BMI)
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
When it scowls and it sneers
when it laughs and it jeers
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
when it crawls up your spine
when it fights back the time
Can you give it a face?
reach up to heaven
and pull it all down
now was not the best time
for you to skip town
can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
When it barks like a dog
when it rots like a log
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
when it bursts at the seams
when it goes to extremes
can you give it a face?
Staring back at herself
50 years down the road
Little Rock hunched over
from carrying her load
can you give it a face?
How many years must pass
how many lessons in a whiskey glass
how much peeling of the skin
how much damage from within
can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
white trash learning
eyes wide burning
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
Can you give it a face?
does it cheapen us to dignify
the view from a bigot's eye
Can you give it a face?
reach up to heaven
and pull it all down
now was not the best time
for you to skip town
can you give it a face?
