Written and performed by Mitch Whitaker
Recorded and mixed by J.M. Long www.youtube.com/@uselessbeforecoffee HQ
Mastered by www.youtube.com/@UCpRsn7cTxpUiKVjeOeiyTPw
And thank you J.M Long and Erik Peterson for laying down the accompaniment!
Lyrics:
I lose myself
A dozen times a day-
Maybe more,
I can’t really say-
To stop the nerves,
But the veins intertwine,
Keeping close to me all the time
I find myself
Caught up endlessly
In a fiction
So real to me
It stops the nerves,
But the veins intertwine,
Keeping close to me all the time
Within a book, a phone, a screen
Within a sermon or a series of dreams
Within the solace of a substance
That undoes some part of me
Within the bonus of a salary
I lose myself
A hundred times a day-
Maybe more,
I can’t really say-
To stop the nerves,
But the veins intertwine,
Keeping close to me all the time
Without good love, good health, good luck
Without the schooling to deal with the crux
Without assistance from a system
In a world always in flux
Without belief in the one who conducts
I find myself
Brought low easily
By a fiction so real to me
It stops the nerves,
But the veins intertwine,
Keeping close to me all the time
I’m keeping it close to me all the time