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Too Much of a Good Thing

from Too Much of a Good Thing by Sam Steffen

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Last night it was fair game / drinkin whiskey and champagne
Somebody offered me cocaine / in a bathroom stall
But this morning I’m reeling / my head’s split and I’m feeling
Like too much of a good thing / ain’t no damn good at all

I drank from the flagon / I went chasing dragon
You know it took the whole gallon for a buzz that felt small
Damn right I’m complaining, it’s just myself that I’m blaming—
Too much of a good thing ain’t no good at all

The game was amazing / I mean the cards I was playing
They went all in and I raised em / it was just too good to call
I won the motherload payout / then got robbed on my way out
yeah too much of a good thing ain’t no damn good at all

from a toxic envir’n’ment / you were beauty incarnate
in your second-hand garment / and some kind of a shawl
what did you have against me that you had to convince me
that too much of a good thing ain’t no good at all?

Dawn broke to acknowledge that the room was demolished
The brass had lost all its polish and there was a hole in the wall
I tried bein honest, but no good deed goes unpunished—
Too much of a good thing ain’t no damn good at all

No doubt it’s recorded how my risks were rewarded
How the plans that I thwarted did abhor and appall—
it’s like my mama done taught me / fore the sheriff done caught me
she said too much of a good thing ain’t no good at all

I’ve savored and lavished, refrained from and ravished,
I’ve evenly averaged, on the whole, overall—
but obeying the treaty only profits the greedy
too much of a good thing ain’t no damn good at all

I’ve been out to lunches with the generals and judges
I’ve rolled with the punches of bureaucracy’s brawl
They claim that their shutting / of doors is a good thing
well, too much of a good thing ain’t no damn good at all

You fast and you famish, resist all you can manage
Your desires you banish like the ice from a thaw
Until one day you grow up and you gorge til you throw up
And learn too much of a good thing / ain’t no damn good at all

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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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