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Say When

from Say When by Sam Steffen

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You still can’t decide if it’s better to hide or to come out wearing your blues
When push comes to shove you’re able to love just as far as you’re willing to lose
You’ve poured out your cup but it keeps filling up flowing over again
As what was collides with what might have been
What might’ve been if only we’d known
We might’ve turned round we might’ve come home
We might’ve grown old, we might’ve been shown
A way of our own
Through thick and thin
And gone it alone
I just can’t say when

Your foregone concern as you try to relearn how to let go and how to hold on
Is with whether or not you’ve already forgot how he’s right here now that he’s gone
The tables’ve turned upon what you discerned to be the difference between you and them
Without ever once giving up you had to give in
Had to give in if only to sleep
Every once in a while, maybe once in a week
Or once you’ve come back
From making the leap
And stopping the leak
By going all in
On this losing streak
I just can’t say when

Your only defense as you try to make sense of this trial you’ve put yourself through
Is how you’re consoled by your lack of control and you realize it might’ve been you
You’re trine to accept what you couldn’t expect would be waiting for you on the wind
He wasn’t my brother by blood but he was my friend
He was my friend, you told to them all
As they lent you their ears and let their eyes fall
And backed away slow
Saying nothing at all
Not like I don’t know
The way it’ll go
The way that it’s been
There’ll be tomorrow
I just can’t say when

The time it moves fast but you cant feel it pass as you sit up and talk with the moon
This mountain of grief can be moved with belief but all anyone brought is a spoon
You’re tryin so hard not to let down your guard but now that you know how it ends
It might as well break wherever it bends
Right where it bends, before it deserts
And they ask you to say right where it hurts
And you show up one morning
Wearing one of his shirts
That you pulled from the dirt
And you tried to convert
But you just disconcert
I know that it hurts
I know where it hurts
I know how it hurts
I know why it hurts
I just can’t say when

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from Say When, released October 3, 2021

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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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