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Smoke in the morning
I watch the highway from the balcony
Rain on the pavement
for a moment, I'm relieved...

That I'm slowly dying, darlin'
RIPARP
I never did quite figure it out
This life just goes on and on and...

If I don't wake up
(Yeah even if I don't)
Please don't wait up

Because the truth is suffering
is as common as anything
& pretty soon the moon
will be smiling

So, if something's missing
there's no use wishing for a change
Change is always with us
Why do we act like it's so strange?

Well, I guess I'm changing, darlin'
RIPARP
I wonder what's taken so long, now
This life just goes on and on and...

If I don't wake up at first alarm
it's cuz I didn't get enough

.. of lovin' you
well, lucky me:
I hit the snooze
and go back to sleep

Not for you
but because of you, I'm me

If something comes between us...
Well I don't know what to say
this is who we are now,
you and me both, ok?

You lead the way

I guess that's what I'm sayin' darlin':
RIPARP -
This life is no longer my own
And I hope it goes on and on and...

If I don't wake up
I hope this song gets in
your head and stuck

and just becuase I'll never be "somebody"
it doesn't mean that this all
didn't all mean anything

but suddenly, this is all I need.

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from RIPARP [B​-​Sides, I guess], released July 22, 2019

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Andrew Robert Palmer Chicago, Illinois

I'm a regular guy doing a very small thing.

Chicago-based. Sometimes rock, sometimes folk.

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