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Can't Stay (Too Long) [feat. Hannah Evelyn Jones]

from Halloween by Steven Wagler

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Spent a decade as a shadow, happy just to follow,
to walk you home... was I even there at all?
Woke up so dysphoric, tried a while to ignore it,
swallowed whole... didn't notice I was gone.

A summer disconnected, trauma resurrected,
Let me go and you'll be better off.
Autumn on the doorstep, all those brittle little regrets
piling up, I know I have to go.

Can it feel this right, but be this hard?
Can we say goodbye and not fall apart?
'Cause I'll miss you, I'll miss you so much but
I can't stay. I can't stay. I've been away too long.

A year of starting over, all the under-drawings bolder,
I know they know I'm no closer than I was.
Every open door, a mirror, when you want to disappear...
so it goes, try another just because.
But still our time together, I will hold onto forever,
I hope you know you made it everything it was.

Can it feel this right, and still be this hard?
Can we say goodbye and not fall apart?
'Cause I'll miss you, I'll miss you so much but
I can't stay. I can't stay. I've been away too long.

I can't stay. (I'll miss you)
I can't stay. (I'll think of you)
I can't stay. (I won't let myself forget you)
I was barely here at all.

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from Halloween, released March 3, 2021

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Steven Wagler Albuquerque, New Mexico

Midwesterner that grew up in punk and cover bands just writing and recording when time and opportunity allow.

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