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    1. What to Keep

    From the recording Tangle of Souls (2020)

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    Scott Cook - vocals and guitar

    Recorded by Brad Smith at Velveteen Audio, Edmonton

    Lyrics

    Going through old boxes, getting rid of things
    Feels kinda like a part of you dying
    Found an old journal where I’d written my dreams
    And suddenly I don’t know why I’m crying
    And I’m wondering if I’m anything
    Like that bright-eyed boy had in mind
    And what to keep, and what to leave behind

    Everything just blows by in the open air
    Forever young and living for the chase
    But life sat me down for a long, hard stare
    At what had me running in the first place
    And the parts of me I refused to see
    For fear of just what I might find
    Of what to keep, and what to leave behind

    I dreamed I built a raft to cross a river
    And it took me over to the other shore
    But then I got scared to leave it there
    In case I had a need for it once more
    So I dragged it on across the burning desert
    Where the wind-blown sand made me blind
    And as I fell to my knees, I still couldn’t see
    What to keep, and what to leave behind

    Everywhere they’re taking down old statues
    Calling out the shadows of our past
    The men we called heroes, the vice we call virtue
    The ways that served us once but just can’t last
    And it can break a heart to tear apart
    What’s been so long and closely intertwined
    As what to keep and what to leave behind

    Going through old boxes, getting rid of things

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