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Bitter Drink

from In the Clocktower by Spark & Echo

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Track 5 from Spark & Echo's Video Album IN THE CLOCKTOWER
All Songs recorded live
Watch at: vimeo.com/album/3080253/video/108684138
Videos Available at gum.co/InTheClocktower

Written by Emily Clare Zempel
Based on Numbers 15:11-31

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Bitter Drink
Written By Emily Clare Zempel

Numbers 15:11-31

If I did or if I didn’t, it would all be the same to you
You hold this jealousy, it’s filling up your hands
Oh, you take me to a place where I cannot stay
Oh, this bitter drink was never meant for me or you
If you asked me, if you asked me I’d tell you so
But all this doubt that consumes you is placed on me
Oh, I bear it all
So be it. So it goes.

On this dusty ground you let my hair fall down
The flower that you hold tastes like dust to me
Did you think my belly would grow without your love
Or emptiness would be all I could hold
If you asked me, if you asked me I’d tell you so
But all this doubt that consumes you is placed on me
Oh, I bear it all

If you asked me, if you asked me I’d tell you so
But all this doubt that consumes you is placed on me
Oh, I bear it all
I bear it all
I bear it all…

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from In the Clocktower, released August 15, 2014
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IN THE CLOCKTOWER Album Credits:
Emily Clare Zempel: Vocals, Guitar, Ukulele, Bassoon, Percussion,
Jonathon Roberts: Vocals, Piano, Harmonica, Accordion
Bitter Drink and Stranger written by Emily Clare Zempel.
All other songs written by Jonathon Roberts.

Audio recorded and mixed by J Scott Hinkley of Flat World Productions (FlatWorldPro.com)
Video by Michael Markham of KiteMonkey Productions (MichaelMarkhamOnline.com)

Mastered by Christopher Colbert

Filmed and recorded live at the Clocktower Lofts, 112 Lincoln Ave., Bronx, New York.

Cover Art by Charis Carmichael Braun

All music and lyrics Copyright © 2014 by Jonathon Roberts and Emily Clare Zempel.
All Rights reserved.

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Jonathon Roberts Beacon, New York

Jonathon MT Roberts is a composer and performer inspired by biblical text with a background in classical, jazz and, pop. He collaborates with his wife Emily Clare Zempel for the Spark & Echo band and write off the beaten path music and theatre. Founder of Spark and Echo Arts. ... more

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