Name: Hot Potato
Duration: P00H03M35S
Description: Hot Potato: Track 11 was one for the books. I wrote the lyrics several years ago and it's about trusting your instincts.

Hot Potato

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Hot Potato: Track 11 was one for the books. I wrote the lyrics several years ago and it's about trusting your instincts.

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Hot Potato
Music & Lyrics By: Nathaniel Hockman

Put your hands in your pockets and not the light sockets,
You’ll shoot like a rocket in space.
There’s one thing I’ll tell you my friend,
I’ll never let myself get burned again.
If playing with fire is your true desire,
You’ll find your hands burning one day.
A day like tomorrow chock-full of that sorrow,
And pain that does not go away.

Do not eliminate the history of a brutal ability,
Or shove these words under a rug.
No matter how snug your love,
Never ignore your gut.
Some call it patterns and some cake on lies,
Just look at these eyes and speak,
You cannot always feel the way,
The way that my eyes want to see.

The things that you suspect and feel in your belly and brain,
You’re not insane.
Because the magnitude of what I was feeling,
Was cheek to cheek to the dealing.
There’s no time for tension,
Just lost in a lesson,
I’ll find this to be funny one day.
No matter what I would do,
I found a way to be spared by you.

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from Embody & Expel, released February 12, 2017

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Nathaniel Hockman Ypsilanti, Michigan

A long series of recordings started in 1997 as I began to figure out how to make music and recordings on my own. The discography will take some time to upload. My archive is under construction....always.

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