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Pearls Before Swine​/​The Chicken or The Egg

from Jigs, Jives & Jacobites (Live) by The Ian Bruce Band

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PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Dear table in front of me, I wish you’d look around
To the folks trying to listen but can hardly hear a sound
Save your shouts and your laughter as you swill your beer.
But don’t mind me up here

Chorus
I’m pearls before swine.
I must believe or go out of my mind.
Ommmmm!!

It strikes me now, you don’t know me at all
To you I’m interference, I’m just paper on the wall
Well perhaps I could move you if you would only hear.
Ah but don’t mind me up here.

I’m outwardly confident but deep inside I’m shy.
Deep inside I’m angry and deep inside I cry.
I don’t deserve your rudeness or this salt tear.
Ah but don’t mind me up here.

To all you people who reached out your hands
You spoke words of kindness, you seemed to understand.
You looked to this front table with a sigh and a sneer
Thanks from me up here.

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from Jigs, Jives & Jacobites (Live), released May 1, 2000

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