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The Stolen Guitar

from Songs from a Stolen Guitar by Simon Joyner

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited colored vinyl is translucent red. In deluxe tip-on jacket.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Songs from a Stolen Guitar via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Black vinyl edition of the album in deluxe, tip-on jacket.

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    Digisleeve with 16 page booklet with lyrics.

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lyrics

The Stolen Guitar
I wrote a song on a stolen guitar
I gave it all I could
A thief dressed like a revolutionary
Wielding nylon, steel, and wood

It was short, it was long
It was weak, it was strong
It was everything I wanted to say
I wrote a song on a stolen guitar
when I was just learning how to play

The words came fast as I recall
My tongue savored the melody
I wore down the frets with all my regrets
and all of my ecstasies

It was sad, it was sweet
Unvarnished, complete
A trick memory sometimes plays
when you cling to something you don’t really own
and you give the rest away

But a song is hardly ever enough
Could there be even more that I owed?
It was show-and-tell with a rope and a bell
and I was the only one who showed

Because somewhere I got lost somehow
and the song drifted out my door
I wrote a song on a stolen guitar
but I can’t hear it anymore

I swore I’d always give it to you straight, my friends
If indeed that’s still what you’re after
Whether I’m singing in the shower
or hanging from the rafter

It was right, it was wrong
It was old, it was young
It was everything I could not say
I wrote a song on this stolen guitar
when I was just learning how to play

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from Songs from a Stolen Guitar, released June 3, 2022

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Simon Joyner Omaha, Nebraska

Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. He's been flying under the radar since 1991, releasing music on various independent labels including: Team Love, Jagjaguwar, Sing Eunuchs!, Catsup Plate, One-Hour, Shrimper, Brinkman, Secretly Canadian, and Unread. He is also the co-founder of Grapefruit Records (grapefruitrecordclub.com) and an occasional producer of other people's albums. ... more

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