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Long Way Around

from Wild & New by westwork

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No more crying
Over things I can’t control
No more giving less and taking more
No more trying
To get one over on life
No more acting nice till the cop’s out of sight

You’d think I’d ve already learned
With all the bridges that I’ve burned
There’s a short path to solid ground
But I took the long way around

No more giving
The twisted wealthy a pass
No more fables of the white working class
No more lying
To my family and friends
No more politics that I can’t defend

You’d think I’d ve already learned
With all the bridges that I’ve burned
There’s a short path to solid ground
But I took the long way around

This time I’ll love
Without conditions
This time I’ll shut my mouth and listen
This time I’ll wait till I get permission
This time I’ll fix only the parts that need fixin

No more fighting
Or saying hell to it all
No more angry pride before the Fall

no more phases
where I disappear
no more barroom trials or whisky tears

You’d think I’d ve already learned
With all the bridges that I’ve burned
There’s a short path to solid ground
But I took the long way around

This time I’ll keep
My promises with me
This time I won’t live up to my history
This time I’ll speak before I shout
This time I’ll think before I open my mouth

This time I’ll stop all the pretending
This time I won’t give away the ending
This time I swear I’ll stop repeating
All of these phrases that don’t have a meaning
This time I'll take what the world has to give me
mind my own business and send her home safely
This time I’ll let my heart be a window
Start up a band and write a song with an intro
This time I’m different or haven’t you heard?
This time I won’t always get the last word

This time I’ll love
Without conditions
This time I’ll shut my mouth and listen
This time I’ll wait till I get permission
This time I’ll fix only the parts that need fixin

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from Wild & New, released October 13, 2022

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Westwork is the name of a solo project by Joshua Douglas Camp

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