Jennifer Leonhardt: MUSIC
Gentleman's Bet
your heart beats like a bird flushed out of hiding and like a wild thing it will always come and go, the ancient forests' fall and marshlands are drying, your blood runs like a river of all that you know- once there were things you thought you could hold onto, things you felt you understood for sure-these days you lie awake in darkness and the sun beats down like a sleepless kind-of cure, still the (chorus) sky it arches farther than you can see it, and heartbreak can't be seen but over time, and practice is a thing but love is stronger, a thing is only strange until it's mine; a gentleman's bet is still a wager on a dime. now, everything in you is restless for doing better, and every lack around you's a chastisement from the Fall, you think you just can't break any longer and then you do like before and that's all, still the (chorus)
[Released on United State of Americana Vol 4 (ShutEye Records 2006)]