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02 The One They Showed Me - SiF 3

[Intro] (Rhodes and brushed drums, warm and inviting, 8 bars) [Verse 1 - Female Vocal] They showed me a man on the television with a jet and a very white smile, saying the seed that you plant will come back to you sevenfold if you plant it here, tonight. [Verse 2 - Female Vocal] They showed me a sign on a folding table set up outside the county fair. GOD HATES — and then a word somebody painted very carefully. [Chorus - Female Vocal with Harmonies] That's the one they showed me. That's the one they showed me. Out of everything there was to show, that's the only one they showed me. [Verse 3 - Female Vocal] They showed me a boy in a youth group basement learning which of his friends to be afraid of, and a woman crying in a bathroom stall about a dress that was two inches short. [Bridge - Female Vocal] (strings enter, sweetest moment on the album) And I could have laughed the whole thing off. I could have called it a cartoon. Except the man at the folding table was the man who taught my Sunday school. [Final Chorus - Female Vocal with Harmonies] (short silence before this section, then fullest version) That's the one they showed me. That's the one they showed me. Out of everything there was to show, that's the only one they showed me. [Outro] (detuned upright piano alone, sour, holding — the gloss falls off) [End]