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    1. Learning To Let Go

    From the recording Further Down the Line (2017)

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    They're all done sweeping up
    And the chairs are stacked for going
    While there's drink left in our cups
    Here's to when they were overflowing
    And all the good times gone
    And the urge to tarry on
    But I'm hungry for the starlight
    Out beyond the neon glow
    And that's how I'm learning to let go

    Good friends, haven't we've had some times?
    And I've wished that they could linger
    Oh, but don't they feel sublime?
    As they run through your fingers
    Like the last golden dregs of day
    Or a love you can't make stay
    When no amount of wanting
    Will ever make it so
    That's how I'm learning to let go

    All the sights that filled my eyes
    All the wild lands I wandered
    All the sweetest things I tried
    All the sweet time I squandered
    All the loves, the closest ones
    And the should'ves and the might have dones
    Will be scattered like our money
    Like our good friends laid low
    That's how I'm learning to let go

    I've seen my big ideas come and go
    Seen my father in the mirror
    And I'm fading into everyone I know
    As the young ones come in clearer
    May their hearts be wide and true
    May they find comrades like you
    And the good seeds that we planted
    May they live to see them grow
    That's how I'm learning to let go

    I've heard about a land beyond the sky
    Where the righteous go in the end
    But I don't know how I'd rest there by and by
    Without all my wicked friends
    And the land calls to me
    Someday she'll take all of me
    And feed me to the flowers
    That lie dreaming 'neath the snow
    That's how I'm learning to let go

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