A Song to Bring Me Back

track name: A Song to Bring Me Back
album and band name: from Odds & Ends by Our Twilight Pastime

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about: This is one of the few songs I recorded in my apartment in Brooklyn. I was at a low-point then and the lyrics reflect it. I honestly am not that big of a fan of this song. But I'm not too sure if it's just because I feel like it's nothing special, or it brings me back to that time too much.

Astute OTP fans will recognize that this song reuses some lyrics from The Best Part, which itself "stole" lines from poems of mine. I tend to borrow from my poetry when I'm at a loss for words. It seems like it would work well, but honestly, it usually doesn't in my case.
lyrics: Lately I know I haven't been the same.
I've been giving out apologies
like they were my name.
And I've been hard on myself,
maybe a little too much,
'cause you say that you still love me
and I'm touched.

Still though, when I look deep in my eyes
I see a busted-up boy of 24.
And I try to analyze every crack and splinter
that I can catch on me,
to find some mending epiphany.

And I know you'd just like me to stop now
get back to being that friend that I once was.
Shut my presumptuous ol' mouth.
The one that assumes my sadness made you hate me.

And if you're honest that you don't,
I'll be honest when I say
you are the key that I'll always need
to lock away my startled sadness
and throw it to the street.
And all my love goes out to you.
The constants surrounding me,
solving all my little problems with living.

So if some doctor wants to give me medicine,
well I heard that those pills
can kill your creativity.
And if this is the last song that I write.
I want to thank you for knockin'
the sunlight back in me.
Like the broken flashlight I am
and will always be.
credits: from Odds & Ends, track released 01 September 2007
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense
license: All rights reserved
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