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This World Is Not For Me

from Wavelab Sessions EP by Douglas Shepherd

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lyrics

I wish that I could see
The good in where I came from
Like the richness in the soil
That releases the spring

Like the old man down the road
He just turned 97
And the lady down the street
Brings him dinner in the evening

It's the smallest things that shake us free
From the shallowness of a grave
But I cannot help but see this darkest hour
coming for me
Over my dashboard, and over the hill
This world is not for me

The wooden step of my porch
I greets me with a creak
And the blue light of your set
flows into the street

I wish I could stand out here all night long
And not have to knock on your door,
Pretend like nothing happened,
Just go on like before

It's the first thing in your mind when you open up your eyes,
Does your morning sing, or does it cry?
It's whiskey bottle words flying right past your teeth,
when you should have just said goodnight

This world is not for me
This world is not for me
This world is not for me
This world is not for me

It's sunday morning and I slept horrible again
My neck is killing me and raining so hard
But I am trying to see everything in a shade of blue or green
But it's hard
It;'s coming down so hard

There's a lonely dogwood tree,
Between the sidewalk and the street,
I think it's on it's way out,
It didn't blossom this spring

I'm gonna get me another one
Maybe a juniper or cleradendron
And come summer's end
It's gonna smell so sweet

It's the smallest things that shake us free
From the shallowness of a grave
But I cannot help but see this darkest hour
coming for me
Over my dashboard, and over the hill
Over the horizon, just coming in for the kill

This world is not for me
This world is not for me
This world is not for me
This world is not for me

credits

from Wavelab Sessions EP, released February 1, 2007
guitar, voice, lap steel - Doug Shepherd
drums - Rachel Blumberg
bass - Chris Giambelluca
harmonica - Craig Schumacher
piano - Nick Luca

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