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a cup of coffee still sits untouched
Right where I left it back there in the diner
Her message sounded like she’d been rushed
I thought I knew where I might find her
So I crossed several dozen mid-sized states
Along a road she had once named her shortcut
believing as I recalled her stubborn traits
that Love was one thing she’d never aim to forfeit
But my instinct’s slow—to overthrow
Any notion that the worst’s come true
any chance I’d take—if it’d help me make
My way back to you

a soldier stopped me where the road dissolved
and showed me your portrait from the riot
he said, “She’s wanted—we think she’s somehow involved,”
I knew exactly what he meant by it;
So I followed the river to the shore
When I came to the sea, I went ahead and crossed it
The ferryman told me not to bother him no more
“If ever you ever had any luck with me, you’ve just gone and lost it”
Now I’m on the road—it’s getting cold
I’m inside out—I’m black and blue
I’m left behind—still trine to find
My way back to you

The signs say one thing, but they mean something else
In the end it’s all somehow connected
If you want to get something done in this life, you’d better go and do it by yourself
But look out: it won’t be at all what you expected
The clues I’ll gather, the leads, exhaust
If there only were some way, I would quit hoping
All the crime scene tape reads: Do Not Cross
And when the gun turns up, it’s never smoking
I’m in a daze—unamazed
feeling something not unlike deja vu
for goodness sake, I’m just trine to make
my way back to you

I still don’t know if you’ll make the time for me
I don’t need to know yet, I can wait and see—

So I’ll wander down along the beaten path
I ain’t no pioneer, no trailblazer
You think I’m out for glory—hell, don’t make me laugh
I just wish I could reign in my own behavior
I’ll never give up, I’ll never cease to try—
I never did know how to surrender
They tell me beauty’s something exists in the beholder’s eye
But it feels like it’s her spell that I’m under—
It’s one more excuse—to win or lose
feel like my nine lives by now’s down to two
I’m in a pinch—just trying to inch
my way back to you

in a different place, maybe, at another time
in the event of some extreme reversal
if it was you who had fallen, been stricken blind
and the story had made it round, full-circle
maybe if we’d checked it sooner from running completely wild
none of this ever would have happened—
I just wish you could be reconciled
Being that there’s nothing left for your subtraction
I’m in the gale—I’m on the trail
I’m almost done—I’m nearly through
I’m making time—still trine to find
My way back to you

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from Too Much of a Good Thing, released October 8, 2023

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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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