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As Long As You Are There

from Only Human by Sam Steffen

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Psalm 118:6

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I could be outcast, outnumbered and outlawed
I could be downcast, downwind, and downtrod
I could be discovered and then proved a fraud
By any of your circus geeks

I could be at sea without a sail
Boat could capsize in the gail
I could be swallowed up by Jonah’s whale
Carried down ten thousand leagues—

just as long as you are there
To help to see me through
Just as long as you are there
Lord, what couldn’t I do?

I could be tempted, tested, tortured, hazed
Moved to speak unfalsely any number of ways
I could be undone in the sentencing phase
By the highest so-called authority

Incriminations could be unfurled
Accusations could be spewed and hurled
It could be me against the entire world
I’d still be in the majority

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If I was limp and didn’t have no crutch
If I was sore and couldn’t bare your touch
If for whatever reason it just got to be too much
It got to be more than I could endure

If I lost that which I could not retrieve
And only felt what I couldn’t perceive
If I knew you weren’t –I’d still believe
Anyway, that you were

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from Only Human, released March 7, 2019

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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