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All the Things I Should've Told You

from Nothing About Frogs (2012) by Bill Burke

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In the old take
Injuns should've left them alone
When poor and plucky settlers sought a home
Such a big land
Food and riches abound
Certainly enough to go around
Then at last it's "Not so fast. It's really kinda funny
Who comes off as the bad guys in this tale"
Now the Duke was entertaining and we made a lot of money
The truth is that those movies lied
And cast our history aside with

All the things, I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not know
Over time the way the drama would go
Oh, the things I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not say
All the things I did not want in the way

Once the word was
Conform right out of the gate
Seen as sane demanded seen as straight
How fragile nature, wouldn't stand a chance with that kind
The cannibals and lepers just behind
But just like that, well, eat those hats, it never was a crisis
Creatures great and small like switching sides
And ask us experts just how long we knew how things were shakin'
A decade back, or two or three
Give or take a century of

All the things, I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not know
Over time the way the crazy can grow
All the things I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not say
All the things I did not want in the way

Holy doctrine shows us why some stories are repeaters
The evil one was back in time you see
Where he planted all this nonsense just to muddy up the water
We're not inclined to teach that stuff
Your years of learning aren't enough for

All the things, I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not know
Over time the way the drama would go
Oh, the things I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not say
All those things I did not want in the way
And all the things I could have told you, I should have told you, I did not say
All the things I did not want in the way

There’s the young boy
On the way to church or the gym
Have no fear, he's safer there with them

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from Nothing About Frogs (2012), released October 24, 2012

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