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Together, Apart
04:23
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We are in this world together, always have been always will
Blue and green, a daydream beaten, brutal, beautiful
And ravages of capital cloaked in decency
Our capacity for love and for belief
Taking one step forward and right back to the start
Scared to be together, afraid to be apart
There are no perfect people, only messy ones in store
Those it’s worth believing in and still worth fighting for
I am flawed and I am foundering but smiling in the sun
Come check out my glass house my glass door
I can show you around my troubled mind and my tired hopeful heart
Scared to be together, afraid to be apart
A cardinal, a sentinel, a memory of you
This red bird on a hydro line, this evening walking through
If I could have an hour just to talk to you again
To say the things I never did, you’re gone
Oh I missed my cues, my monologue, could never nail this part
Scared to be together, afraid to be apart
Well I don’t pray, but every day remember
What a fragile thing this living, oh, it is
See me swimming with my best friend in the Nova Scotia surf
Holding on my newborn nephew’s tiny perfect hand
Laughing with my dad until the tears run down our shirts
Sitting with my grandma at the end
Sometimes it comes easy, other days it’s hard
Scared to be together, afraid to be apart
Afraid to be apart
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Climax, Michigan
04:33
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Climax, Michigan, no coat at the gas station
The world is so much hotter than when we were kids
But it was always end times, it was always going to end
And from the start there was absolutely nothing we could do
I’m driving through, listening to music and thinking about you
It comes and goes and no one knows, just how long
Onto Indiana, into Illinois
I came here to Chicago as a boy
My grampa was alive then, so was Walter Payton
Now Walter’s gone, and grampa he died, too, hey what can you do
I’m driving through, listening to music and thinking about you
It comes and goes and no one knows, just how long
Yeah just how long, we’ll go on
And it goes so fast
So one more mile to Climax, Climax, Michigan
Folks live here, I guess folks live most anywhere
In our biggest cities, in the smallest towns
So many ways to be alone together, hey what can you do
I’m driving through, listening to music and thinking about you
It comes and goes and no one knows just how long
It comes and goes and no one knows
And I know the hardest part is saying goodbye
Yeah I know the hardest part is saying goodbye
Goodbye
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