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What you stash in the drawer
With the broken handle
Is not a golden treasure
Its not the spoils of a war
The closer I get
the more it shrinks away
And I know that the hardest work
Is when you're trying to play.

Chorus:
And thrown down tools seem to find a way
(when you leave them and not when you stay)
Come back to fool the one that threw them away
(when you need them and no other way

It seems that the young and the dumb
know what you're trying to learn
Cause they told you the deal was that things
were only worth what you earned
Well its not the biggest lie
That youve ever been told
Cause its true on winter nights
when your insides are cold

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from Riot of Cells, released July 17, 2013

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The Mash Combo Dublin, Ireland

The Mash Combo are a Dublin-based band based around singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Declan Murray, previously of Irish/Indian Band The Unseen Guest, and Dublin band The Four In Hand. This is their first full-length album.

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