Features the bonus track “Nobody’s Gonna Get Hurt” which was co-written with Lori McKenna and showcases backing vocals from Amber Rubarth. SWALLOWED BY THE NEW is the most intensely personal album of his career, reflecting his mastery for converting raw emotion into sound. Taking on life’s difficult transitions, Phillips delivers some of his most vulnerable songs yet.
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lyrics
Kisses at the door, gather round the table
Papers lay in wait, envelopes to mail
Barking at my heels, I’m trying to be stable
Just leave me in the bag I’m going soon again
Dreaming of unpacking, some day I can stay
I’ll call you when I can, it’s just another day
Home feels a million miles tonight
Hope feels a little hard to find
I’m here to catch some kind of spark
In every face I see
And offer amnesty, offer amnesty
Points along the path, moments strung together
Give up on arrival, trying to remember
Everything should matter, nothing lasts forever
Oh how could I have known it’s braver to surrender
Cast off your coat and shiver in the weather
All the time I wasted chasing buried treasure
Home feels a million miles tonight
Hope feels a little hard to find
I’m trying to get some glimpse of grace
From across this endless sea
Would you offer amnesty?
Would you offer amnesty?
And I can’t go home now
No I can’t go home, I can’t go
I can’t go
Home feels a million miles tonight
Hope feels a little hard to find
We’re all stumbling towards the light
And we beg to be released
Would you offer amnesty?
Would you offer amnesty?
credits
from Swallowed by the New (Deluxe Edition),
released May 4, 2018
(Glen Phillips/Ben Glover) Baptistina (ASCAP)/Proper Music Publishing (MCPS/PRS) Administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp.
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