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Antonia

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Antonia

Antonia slid ‘cross the floor and she sat down by my side
I didn’t have a path to the door and there wasn’t anywhere to hide
We talked about last summer and that guy she’d tried to kill
I said, “You haven’t changed at all.” She said, “You know I never will.”

Antonia put her makeup on and pulled on a little black dress
Stiletto heels six inches long, but she left her hair a mess
I said, “Antonia, won’t you please tell me why?”
She said, “When I put it all together, you little boys just break down and cry.”

Oh, Antonia, you scare the living hell outta me
Oh, Antonia, why can’t you let me be?
Oh, Antonia, you scare the living hell outta me
Oh, Antonia, let me be

Antonia said, “Let’s go for a walk,” and she took me by the hand
I could see my body outlined in chalk on the dock out on Bristol Strand
I said, “Antonia – how about I take you on out for a drink?”
Thinking if I kept her in my sights, I might get a minute to think . . .

Oh Antonia, you scare me half to death
Oh Antonia, a lot of coke, a little crystal meth
Oh Antonia, I know you shoot to maim
Oh Antonia, I like to see you just the same

Oh Antonia, she’s nobody’s fool
Oh Antonia, she won’t play by your rules
Oh, Antonia, she’s got two guns and a knife
Here she comes – you better run for your life

Antonia took me up to her flat and laid me on the bed
Sat herself down in a high-backed chair and I knew I was as good as dead
Just then the cops broke in with a warrant to take her away
I jumped from the window and broke two toes, but I lived to see another day

Oh, Antonia, you scare the living hell outta me
Oh, Antonia, why can’t you let me be?
Oh, Antonia, you scare the living hell outta me
Oh, Antonia, let me be
Let me be
Let me be

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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