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The Answer Lady

from Most of It Is True by Rachel Zylstra

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I would say I am nice, I have got a beautiful heart, I give good advice, use my head and always think smart
What is so hard about that?

When I do bad things, it is just a lapse of good sense. I wear many rings and live behind a white picket fence
Come over for coffee and chat

Bring me your gripes, bring me your fears, I’ve got an answer pat
Have a croissant, stay for a meal, but don’t you think that I don’t know how you feel
‘Cause you needn’t know the answer to that.

Do you know my son Jonathan – isn’t he an awfully bright kid – plays in marching band, and at state the judges He did impress as the best at the tuba
And my girl Madeline has a little gig of her own: last week she was seen modeling at the local fashion show
She’s gonna be the next Cindy

Bring me your gripes, bring me your fears, I’ve got an answer pat
Have a croissant, stay for a meal, but don’t you think that I don’t know how you feel
‘Cause you needn’t know the answer to that.

I one time saw a film about people poor and ill
I got scared – good thing I brought a mask for my eyes
And the plastic ran through just fine.

Now you think I am bad, summoned up to illustrated trite
Just a comic book version of the guilty socialite
Well what is so wrong about that?

Who’s to say (-not me-) what is right and what is all wrong
I am trapped as well, stuck inside this stupid preachy song
And what can I do about that?

Bring me your gripes, bring me your fears, I’ve got an answer pat
Have a croissant, stay for a meal, but don’t you think that I don’t know how you feel
‘Cause you needn’t know the answer to that.

If all your gripes weren’t all my fears, I’d have an answer pat
This world is round, my husband makes some hundred grand and if there’s more to life than mouth from hand
Well I do not have the answer
I do not have the answer
I do not have the answer for that

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from Most of It Is True, released October 15, 2005
Written by Rachel Zylstra
Recorded at Dynamite Sound Project, Grand Rapids, MI
Rachel Zylstra: vocals, keys

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