[ti:Slight Figure Of Speech] [ar:The Avett Brothers] [al:I and Love and You] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Slight Figure Of Speech - The Avett Brothers [00:09.07]They say you've got to lose a couple fights to win [00:11.62] [00:12.32]It's hard to tell from where I'm sitting [00:14.07] [00:15.12]They say that this is where the fun begins [00:18.19]I guess it's time that I was quitting [00:19.88] [00:22.94]A slight figure of speech [00:25.38] [00:26.82]I cut my chest wide open [00:28.57] [00:29.68]They come and watch us bleed [00:31.88] [00:32.57]Is it art like I was hoping now [00:38.25]They said"I hope that you will never change" [00:41.19]I went and cut my hair [00:43.88]They say"Don't take your business to the big time" [00:46.75]I bought us tickets there [00:48.02] [00:52.51]A slight figure of speech [00:54.45] [00:55.39]I cut my chest wide open [00:57.39] [00:58.27]They come and watch us bleed [00:59.95] [01:01.14]Is it art like I was hoping now [01:07.77] [01:08.58]What did you expect [01:09.39]And what did you forget [01:10.20]That to live you let go of me with each step [01:11.83]It becomes a progression [01:12.55]I won't let regret manifest [01:13.36]To aggression [01:14.63]Are you to assess what I've been [01:15.69]What I am Or become [01:16.42]Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb [01:17.55]It can be to [01:18.17]Attack those around 'cause you're [01:18.86]True to color a town a time or a place [01:20.86]It's not you it's not mine [01:21.80]And besides it is gone [01:22.55]And you never will find it again [01:23.61]But I don't want to fight [01:24.49]I just ask let me be [01:25.43]I won't give the chance to be my enemy [01:27.05]So go home [01:27.57]Think it through [01:28.80]A jet plane and a big idea [01:31.61]I jump over the sea [01:33.05] [01:34.67]What ifs hot on my trail [01:37.30]But that can't catch me no [01:39.00] [01:43.05]A slight figure of speech [01:44.69] [01:45.94]I cut my chest wide open [01:47.82] [01:48.93]They come and watch us bleed [01:50.43] [01:51.68]Is it art like I was hoping now