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Toad the Wet Sprocket – Stories I Tell (1991) | Track profile | Dork

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Toad the Wet Sprocket
Fear
Stories I Tell

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Toad the Wet Sprocket

Stories I Tell

Release date: 27th August 1991

About This Track

"Stories I Tell" is a track by Toad the Wet Sprocket, from the album Fear, released 27th August 1991. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Lyrics

Stories I Tell

[Verse 1]

Don't give me answers or I would refuse

Yes is a word for which I have no use

And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell

Just someone to listen to stories I tell, yeah

[Verse 2]

What is a blessing? What is a dream?

Caught between portraits and none's what it seems

Why is it some people expect there's a change

When I feel I'm a part of something I can't see?

And I feel the same

[Verse 3]

Don't offer questions or I will retreat

Fame is a cancer and ego its seed

[Refrain]

And I wasn't looking for Heaven or Hell

Just someone to listen to stories I tell

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]

Do we ever wonder?

Did you ever care?

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

[Verse 4]

Subtle salvation in poems and prose

Hiding our heads in some shadow of home

And I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells

Just someone to listen to stories I tell

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

[Breakdown]

Stories

[Outro]

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

Stories I tell

[Instrumental Break]

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Track details

From Fear

1991

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Release year

1991

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Writer: Glen Phillips, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Todd Nichols
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