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Skip To The Bow

from The Way Up by Benjamin Jay Thomas

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I wanna skip to the part
Where we all take a bow
Where the ambulance driver says it's time to go home now

I want to sing a song
With nothing but refrains
About the we're all better humans now that we've endured the pain

I could write you a song about the necessity of death
But when all that I love starts to slip through my fingers
I’ll grip on like everyone else

I want to climb into the center of the earth And make it back alive
Just to tell a decent story to my grandkids
Like I'm Bruce Willis in some Die Hard 5

I want to lean way back
Sip smokey bourbon in my chair
I want to look nostalgically back at all the shit walked through to get here

I could write you a song about the necessity of death
But when all that I love starts to slip through my fingers I’ll grip on like everyone else

If I’m honest I’ll tell you that
most off my choices are made to avoid the pain
And I make up excuses to minimize loss
And invent ways to push of off the blame
If I pretend that I’m satisfied long enough
I can buy Into my own little lies
Until that voice deep inside me comes creeping up whispering truth in my ear at night

I wanna skip to the part
Where we all take a bow
Where the ambulance driver says it's time to go home now

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from The Way Up, released October 18, 2019

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