Biography:
There's more than one band called The Finches.
1) The Finches are an emerging American folk pop band from San Francisco, California. Their music gracefully rides the line between folk and pop and singer-songwriter Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs brings to mind such unclassifiable wonders as Vashti Bunyan, the Marine Girls, and Mirah. The Finches musical storytelling has attracted fans both near and far.
Riggs, together with Aaron Morgan (Roots of Orchis) released The Finches' debut album Human Like a House on January 30, 2007.
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New front door same address
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Same front step same back-porch
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Geraniums to the terrace
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Sold my shoes to pay the rent
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I won't be needing them
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I won't be leaving too soon
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Oh my dear do undress
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You look so different in those new shoes
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To impress someone you have never met
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Someone you already know
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Is waiting behind my front door
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And by the door you know I'll wait
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Oh by the window by the gate
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I'm waiting for your sound
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So softly dear don't hesitate
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The lion looms along the lake
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And swallows every sound
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But oh I wish that I could take
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That simple lonely way
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That long cold lonely way
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But these days it takes more than two feet
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It takes four to fill the road
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I fend and swing the axe at for
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I've trampled all over the place
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Swung to and fro and still no state
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Has held me in its bounds
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But by the bridge I'd like to stay
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Oh by the ocean by the bay
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And hope that you'll come around
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Oh my dear do undress
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You look so different in those new clothes
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To impress someone you have never met
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I'm the one needing you
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I'm the one with no shoes
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So by the door you know I'll wait
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Oh looking out the golden gate
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She yawns into the morning
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