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Comfort was the so-called "single" off of Terra Firma. At the time, I called it "the song I've been wanting to write for years." I had tried before to write a song about that feeling of loneliness that makes you long not just for someone, but anyone. I never felt I did it well until Comfort came along. I still really like the upbeat music. It's an older song that still enters most of my setlists.

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Lately I’ve been feeling like a bad architect
‘cause all my designs just go unnoticed,
but if I could just show you something
that would impress, I’d be so damn lucky.

‘Cause I’m hiding behind the shadow of a year
that helped nothing but loneliness reappear–
and like a childhood monster
it grows bigger with fear.
So I’m ducking beneath the sheets: the only things
that comfort me.
So just wake me when I’m free
from the shackles of this imprisonment,
guarded by a warden screaming “no second chances.”
If someone could just pick this lock
I’d be so content, and I’d go anywhere with them;
I’d go anywhere with them;
I’d go anywhere and

you’d hear me screaming
from the top of my lungs: “I’m finally free.”
I’d turn around and thank
whoever it was who released me;
‘cause my defective heart could give out anytime,
quite literally,
but figuratively I’ve learned it’s too damaged to receive.

So, I’m learning to wish on anything I can catch,
like a cold, a bad temper, or just a promise
that when a good time leaves she’ll always be a good guest
and hug herself straight into my memory.

And I know all of these smiles that I’ve gotten out of life
are just blades in an acre
with so many more in sight; and with
these friends I’ve got, I know I’ll be alright,
but sometimes it just gets to me:
while I’m fighting off sleep,
I’d rather be somewhere where

you’d hear me screaming
from the top of my lungs: “I’m finally free.”
I’d turn around and thank
whoever it was who released me;
‘cause my defective heart could give out anytime,
quite literally,
but figuratively I’ve learned it’s too damaged to receive.

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from Terra Firma, released March 1, 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense

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Hi, I'm Michael Goldense. I've used the name Our Twilight Pastime since 2004 for the music I write & record at home. Check out my latest EP, Reimagined Static. I also released an album "The Light of What We Are" under my own name in 2017.

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