about
I believe that I wrote this song in autumn of 2006, but I honestly can't remember. I recorded it and entirely forgot about it until sometime in 2007 when I was picking the tracks for Drunken Sailors. I listened to it and thought "hey, I really like this!" So, I decided it'd be a great final track on the album. To me, it sums up the vibe of most of the songs on Drunken Sailors: I don't have all the answers, and I've got plenty of doubts and worries; but something tells me that as long as we believe in it, things will work out alright.
lyrics
"This is something that we picked up,
so it's something we can shake.
We'll watch this bounty of our sadness
fall to the earth, like the leaves.
Well it's autumn now and we're stuck
getting rid of our sins,
and everything our friends
tell us to drop again.
Maybe it's a number,
or a name, or that last shot,
or just some vice we use
to forget our state.
And each stranger's laugh's just like a crow
picking at what's dying inside:
those simple pleasures
we tried so hard to keep alive.
So, now, tell me what you are praying for,
and I'll share mine with you.
‘Cause we both desperately know,
well, it's gotta come true.
Well we know it's gotta come true."
then you said:
"Mike, we're gonna be alright.
That's just the alcohol talking,
we'll be fine in the morning light.
Now, call me after you walk home tonight;
I wanna make sure you got there alright.
I wanna make sure you got there alright."
credits
from
Drunken Sailors,
released December 9, 2007
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense
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