From the recording Summer of Storms

Lyrics

<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: 'AR BLANCA';"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">IT KILLS THE PAIN</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: 'AR BLANCA';"><span>(c)2006, 2017 Greg Vadimsky</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="font-family: 'AR BLANCA';"><span>Drums, Pianos, Acoustic Guitar, Organ, Bass Guitar, Audience Sounds, Tambourine, Electric Guitar, Vocals </span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Like every good beginning, there's a promise from afar</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>and I face a famous portrait as she hangs above the bar</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Though it's early in the evening, soon the waitress is a star,</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>floating like a dancer as she serves us...potions from the jars</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>The body of this story wasn't built of finer things,</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>but promises not kept, and empty wishes without wings</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Oh, the darkness that surrounds us might just brighten as it brings</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>something greater, wiser, truer, beautiful.. music.. how she sings!</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Now I've brought myself the blame</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Lived this life alone so long, and still survived the rain</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>When they bring me to the stage then, and I'm lit and in the frame</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Oh, oh, it kills the pain</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>When you're getting near the ending and you feel about to cave</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Looking at the others as they drink their Liquid Brave</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Now you understand their story, from the cradle to the grave</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>and the one thing that's remained that never fails you,</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>Ooh, how it's saved</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>I meant this song to find the right lifeline</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>and reach out to the misfits, all you misfits so divine</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>We can bury so much, bury so much in our separate times</em></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" align="CENTER"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><span><em>But when life hands you cherries, then make sweet wine</em></span></span></span></p>