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Losing You

from Since You Been Gone by Sam Steffen

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It’s been a while now since the last time we talked
But I been tracing your footsteps in the paths that we walked
And I been kicking myself cause opportunity knocked—
And I didn’t know that it was my cue

And I’m remembering things that I shouldn’t’ve said
Thinking bout what I could’ve told you instead
It makes me wish sometimes that I were actually dead
Rather than merely regretful and blue

The cracks of my fingers the rain’s fallin through
What is it exactly you want me to do?
Maybe I’m losing my sane point of view
But it feels like—I don’t know
It feels like—I don’t know
It feels like I’m losing you—
It feels like I’m losing you

you changed all your habits to suit your new friends
To whom you were never more than a means to an end
You’re much further gone than even you can pretend
Yet you make believe none of it’s new

And you stand by and watch as your handiwork spoils:
As your patience expires and your temperature boils
and from your tenderest gesture the medusa recoils
as if to say it already knew

I’ve examined the floorplan the architect drew
Seems its somekind of labyrinth we’ve been wandering through
And maybe I’ve lost the thread that this needle went to
but it feels like—I don’t know
it feels like—I don’t know
it feels like I’m losing you

you take on too much, you’re like a martyr at dusk
the things that you once believed in you no longer trust
the machinery to help you has taken on rust
and you’ve bitten off more than you can chew

But when I saw you this morning—you seemed in a good place
You had a spring in your step and a smile on your face
I thought you’d be shipwrecked but it wasn’t the case
I wondered just what had come over you?

this war has been raging too long now, it’s true
what was my little big horn was your waterloo
sure, maybe I won me a battle or two
but it feels like—I don’t know
it feels like—I don’t know
it feels like I’m losing you
it feels like I’m losing you

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from Since You Been Gone, released February 14, 2020

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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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