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Live Your Life

from Almost Moving Backwards by Derek Brink

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This is an old song. I've played it in a couple bands and it appeared previously in an acoustic form on my "Sorry, I Didn't Mean to Shout" collection. It's one of my favorite things I've written and one of my favorites to play. This version is pretty close to how I've always heard it in my head. The organ part is "new" but in my brain it was always there--I just never had anyone to play organ on it.

It's difficult to know what to say about this one that I didn't say when I wrote about it for the "Shout" collection...but I'll tell you that the line "Whatever doesn't kill you might just be taking its time" is still my favorite line I've ever written and it's probably the one major "truth" I've ever stumbled upon as a lyricist.

This song is an opening song. It's a mood-setter. It's a thesis statement. It informs the rest of the experience of this album. Buckle in.

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I’m getting old and irrelevant
and I’m starting to watch my friends die.
Let’s give ‘em hope, give ‘em sentiment,
make ‘em laugh so they don’t wanna cry.
Right now I’m alive and so are you.
Better take a few names while we still can.
‘Cause you go around once, ‘till you’re through
and you ain’t gonna get another chance.

Can’t spend your whole life
with your head in the clouds
searching for a sign.
It might be better just to live life and be kind.
‘Cause whatever doesn’t kill you
might just be taking its time.
Don’t take it for-granted.
You’ve gotta live your own life.

I’m getting bored. Always discontent.
And I’m longing for the time when I was not.
I’m breathing in and breathing out.
So there’s still time to give it whatever I’ve still got.
Right now it’s alright. It’s okay.
Even if it’s not, it’s the best we’re gonna get.
I’ve seen it all and I’ve seen a lot.
But I think that I ain’t seen nothing yet.

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from Almost Moving Backwards, released May 29, 2021

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