Not My Fault

from No Place in America by Swearwords

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I used to trick myself
Into saying i was leaving
Used to trick myself
Into looking up to ghosts
I used to tell myself
That it wasn’t even living
If i was more than a memory
To the people back home..

I had myself convinced
I was a shark in the deep
Had myself believing
I would die if I sleep..
Told my friends that I
I could never be a tree
Putting roots in the ground
Was allergic to me

Maybe I could have touched the sky
With a different group on a different night
I could’ve been lost at sea
If I’d never been told ‘kid you need a plan B’
Maybe i would’ve jumped that train
On a different hill on a different day
Maybe these are just lies that I
I tell my heart
So i can sleep at night
Believing it’s not my fault

I used to sink myself
Into Kerouac schemes…
Put a mountain in my back
Like a rearview dream
I used to tell myself
That it wasn’t even living
If i was more than a memory
To the people I need.

Maybe I could have touched the sky
With a different group on a different night
I could’ve been lost at sea
If I’d never been told ‘kid you need a plan B’
Maybe i would’ve jumped that train
On a different hill on a different day
Maybe these are just lies that I
I tell my heart
So i can sleep at night
Believing it’s not my fault.

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from No Place in America, released December 8, 2022
Written and performed by Swearwords

Produced and engineered by Steve Shirk @ Shirk Sound

Ⓒ Swearwords - 2022

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Songs about soaring and sinking in the American Middle West. As seen from space.

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