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Paint a Target on My Heart (Dargan)

Pull my shirt off in the cellar
Paint a target on my heart
Push me down to reach me better
Set me up to fall apart…

I collect these little things
You say they make you nervous
As if any little thing ever gets to you at all
You select these little rings
As if you could preserve us
Then you remain the only one to save yourself a fall

Pull my shirt off in the cellar
Paint a target on my heart
Push me down to reach me better
Set me up to fall apart

Feed my tiny hopes
Hungry to the marrow
Leave my little world lying fractured on the floor
Twist my favorite words
Till they rifle down your barrel
Wrap me up in ribbons, baby, shoot me out the door

Pull my shirt off in the cellar
Paint a target on my heart
Push me down to reach me better
Set me up to fall apart

Make an ashtray of my wineglass
Throw my records on the floor
Tell me gently with your chainsaw
You don’t love me anymore

Dodging bullets in slow motion
Till your feet don’t touch the ground
Instant rag doll with your penknife
No one ever hears a sound

I drew first but you drew faster
I drew first but you drew blood
Set the record straight, you bastard
You will never brave the flood

(c) Slightly Charred Music

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from The Big Picture (2005), released January 1, 2005

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Sean Michael Dargan Madison, Wisconsin

Sean Michael Dargan is almost too tall, standing six feet, four inches in his favorite black-and-white saddle shoes. On a good day he writes and plays pop rock in the vein of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, and the Gin Blossoms. Guitar and voice are his main instruments, but if you’re not nice he’ll go get out his bagpipes. ... more

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