What a Compromise (feat. Jay Gilliland)

from Halloween by Steven Wagler

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It's funny how the feeling fades...
ran out by the morning light, the well gone dry,
but we remain, no love, no pain, just alive...

So hum a sad forgotten song
to the static of the summer rain on your window pane,
and cry if you can, goodbye my friend, goodbye.

How absurd, a universe contrived
and come to this? I don't believe it.

But I don't want to die,
it's just everything that makes me feel alright
is killing me a little at a time,
what a compromise just to survive.

Empty as a modern prayer,
I reach into unbroken dark, nothing but air.
I know this quiet, I know there's no one there.

How deranged, ashamed that I still care.
I asked for this? I don't believe it.

But I don't want to die,
it's just everything that makes me feel alright
is killing me a little at a time,
what a compromise just to survive.

One more. One more, and then I'll go, I swear I'll go...
one more song and a cigarette...
The shadow of this turning page over everything...
one more before we forget
(so we don't forget...)

That we don't want to die,
it's just everything that makes us feel alright
is killing us a little at a time,
what a compromise just to survive...

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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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