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Take Me There

from Searching for Diamonds by Matt Robert

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Folk ballad about realizing you never knew someone

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Take Me There
Matt Robert

Won't you take me there?
Won't you take me there?
'Cause I want to go, you know i want to go
To that dirty old corner where your blood was let
It flowed from your arm and down into the street
Where we would meet
Won't you take me there?

You liked it down here where the air was foul
You walked a thin line between a page from "Howl"
And a ragged half-tone magazine
You wore a post-punk scowl

Take me there
Take me there
Take me there

To that scarred old street where the buildings sit lower
The heats a little hotter and the taxis move slower
As they sell you freedom that comes in bags bay by the hour
Take me there

I was so confused when I heard the news
Between that person that I thought I knew and what the papers said
And that portrait that you drew
It was the only place you could show your face
And the vision, the talent, the intensity that you spent on the street
Down where we would meet
Won't you take me there?
Take me there
Take me there

To that dead end street where you went to hide
From all the silly feelings you were feeling inside
Hiding from the girls in their pretty little worlds
Strolling Fifth Avenue in their pretty little curls
And that's where we would meet
Won't you take me there?

In that portrait was a face I never knew
But it was you
You bore a proud scar. Was it a badge, a halo, or a curse
And a light draped right across your shirt
And smack in the thick of it was the kid I knew
From up the street, where we would meet
Take me there

And who could foresee what that painting revealed
That long after the scars had healed
You would still feel the pain and the anger
And as you grew older the memories would smolder
And fester, and get the best of you
(That greaser will never know what he took from you that day, on that street, where we would meet)
Take me there
Take me there
Take me there

To that filthy street strewn with bills and receipts
Skyscraping churches of mirrored sheets
Where you went to wash away your sins
And to hide any trace of your past
Did you know that the paint had dried and the colors were fast
And we would never meet
Come on and take me there
Come on and take me there
Come on and take me there
Come on and take me there

credits

from Searching for Diamonds, released May 31, 2013
Words and music: Matt Robert
Matt Robert: vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica
Andrew Kramer: bass
John Jordan: drums
J. Stu Esty: keys, accordion

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Matt Robert Worcester, Massachusetts

New England musician, performing solo acoustic, original and roots covers as well as in Matt&Marty Acoustic Mayhem, with Marty Ayotte.

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