it’s your house 
shut the noise out 
before you drown 
in waves of doubt 
all their scales 
keep weighing you down 
they made their sale 
they don’t care now 

It’s a shakedown baby 
smarter than you get credit for you’re shining baby 
Don’t give what they’re asking for 

Measure for measure 
It’s a trap 
Goalposts keep moving 
Pushing you back 
Light as a feather 
Fall through the cracks 
Baby you’re fine 
I know for a fact 

It’s a shakedown baby 
smarter than you get credit for you’re shining baby 
Don’t give what they’re asking for 

The day is coming 
when you finally hit something 
Instead of air 
when you punch

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The Shakedown

Love In The Ruins is the NYC-based duo of Dana Suchow and John Paul Davis.

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