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Since You Left (Ain't Nothin Been the Same)

from Since You Been Gone by Sam Steffen

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The water tastes like metal and the coffee tastes like paint
And everything I eat these days makes me want to faint
I went to see my doctor and I told him my complaint
He said it ain’t your tongue that’s broken, it’s your brains—
It gives me cause to wonder, or should I say, to doubt
Whether its even blood that’s flowin in my veins
Everything was goin one way now it goes a different route
And since you left ain’t nothing been the same

The colors on my pallet have all gone and changed their hue
My yellows ain’t so yellow and my blues are darker blue
The poetry inside my books just doesn’t ring as true
Each familiar thing now strikes me as strange
Everywhere the sun is shining but a clouds formed over me
And I moved here just to get out of the rain
I don’t know if it’s a secret plot or some conspiracy
But since you left ain’t nothing been the same

The windshield’s got a crack now and the front door’s got a creak
The lamp it has a busted bulb and the faucet’s sprung a leak
And my entire outlook onto life’s grown pretty bleak
I spent my mornings watching things go down the drain
I don’t know if it’s coincidence, bad luck or even fate
Tho I’m afraid I’m hardly able to explain
The smallest shred of sense I can’t configure or create
But since you left ain’t nothing been the same

Rivers used to lead to oceans, now they flow right to their source
Birds used to fly south in the winter, now they’re headin north
Time, she walked a tightrope, now she’s swining back and forth
No sand inside the hourglass remains
I’m still fighting the old demons, the Mondays and the blues
Tho the upper hand I no longer seem to gain
All the things I once relied on now reject me or refuse
And since you left ain’t nothing been the same

My feet, they roam the ceiling, and my head, it scrapes the floor
Today I tried to go outside but I coulnd’t reach the door
I don’t think the laws of gravity are workin anymore
What goes down once can still go down again
But don’t worry bout me darling I think I’m starting to get well
I’m sure that someday it’ll all be plain
You came to me so gently that the change was hard to tell
But since you left ain’t nothing been the same
I’m easily distracted, my mind is all off track
I still think of you from time to time, wonder if you’re comin back
I left a candle burning and a key under the mat
With a note on which I didn’t put your name
If you come acallin for me and I don’t answer right away
It ain’t because I’m angry or detained
Probably I’m just trine to think of something new to say
Cause since you left ain’t nothing been the same

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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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