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A Half​-​Wit's Fairy Tale

from Paranoia Town (Full Album​)​-​2008 by Josh Ward Taylor

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All Words & Music Written, Performed & Produced by Josh Taylor. Copyright 2008.

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I heard a half-wit's fairy tale
On the shiny silver lining of the gloom
Electric morning fire
Crept up like a wildcat howling at the moon
A little man that could barely stand
Four feet tall if a yard was all he'd grown
He had a little tiny pouch full of tales untold
Said he got them somewhere

Somewhere down the road
Somewhere down the road

Well he spoke of a princess named "maybe someday"
Who had an ironclad bulletproof vest of stone
The townsfolk never cared to poke
Into why this sad-eyed lady walked alone
And in the eve when the moon was bare naked
And all across the country shone
She would wait for a prince to take her there
On an altar all carved out of gold

Somewhere down the road
Somewhere down the road

The night leaves from a foreign breeze
Came tumbling down through the mist
And upon the streets
And inside, the kingdom's sky
Was red and gray from the smoke and fire heat
The king's strings left dangling from a broken man
Leaning on a broken throne
And where his wind blows
No one seems to know
But it's rolling
The say it's rolling somewhere

Somewhere down the road
Somewhere down the road

Banging on the door one day
Was the red dead hand of an outlaw on his way
From a town so far away
Where mad men roam and the good men live as slaves
Where the ones without any sense
They rule the rest with an iron fist alone
And it's a place no honest man calls home
But they say
They say it ain't too far

Somewhere down the road
Somewhere down the road

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from Paranoia Town (Full Album​)​-​2008, released December 15, 2008

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Josh Ward Taylor New York, New York

Taylor is one of many contemporary singer-songwriters who plants one foot firmly in the roots of artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young while at the same time pushing forward with his own unique voice. And Taylor’s particular voice so imbued with a sense of honesty and earnestness that it is almost impossible not to welcome each of his songs with open arms.-American Songwriter ... more

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