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from Teepee V by Eli Van Sickel

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Step in these shoes
stuck to these streets
sweating in the night keeps my back on the bedsheets

Can’t make a move
Can’t make a sound
I got no life beyond the edge of this town

Well, I don’t know much but I’ve lived long enough to learn
That I’m just trying not to fade out before I get a chance to burn

Twenty five seems young
to feel so old
no truth to any of the stories I was told

What’s past is past,
Be present now,
I would live for the future if I only knew how

Nothing to fight for, nothing to earn
Trying not to fade out before I get a chance to burn

Go ahead and leave
You’ll be back
You won’t make it past the railroad tracks

Love is gone
Love is dead
You left a world-sized hole in my bed

I’ll never forget when you said the words
Said you didn’t wanna fade out before you got a chance to burn

Another year’s
gonna pass me by
I’ll just be here staring at the sky

And the stars and the moon
And the galaxies
Wondering what the night will show me

Will I ever find out what I’m worth?
Or will I just fade out before I get a chance to burn?

I don’t wanna fade out before I get a chance to burn.

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from Teepee V, released January 14, 2014

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Midwest acoustic folk guitar singer songwriting stuff. I post serious albums and fun experiments/demos on here. Give it a listen?

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