A Fly in the Hand - Alice Russell

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

Heavy change is what I need

No bag of silver with a smiling queen

I got a spider in a box you see

Someday I'll take a little sum for me

From Rome to my very hand

Slipping through like each grain of sand

I open letters to the sound of air

But aw get away I don't want to share

I catch a fly in my hand

In my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly to fly

It didn't help me understand

Understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch

Look for the silver there's a finders fee

And there's an acre for every tree

I wanna go share all around

I drop a penny and I hear no sound

I close the box hide it away

And put a value on their currency

That's ten to them for every one to me

Swallow the key for another day

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch

It's through the nose this sh*t is true

My favourite letters I O U

I cut some feathers with some amber beads

I got an empty bag of some whales teeth

Show me the blood to pacify

It's what makes mothers leave to babies cry

I wanna go share all around

I change the time for every pound of pounds

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

Understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold

I catch a fly in my hand

My knuckles go white

I wanted to fly

It didn't help me understand

But it sure felt good to hold