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With All Due Respect

from Nothin to Write Home About by Sam Steffen

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I’ve not always heeded your sage advice which you’ve been given out to me since I was a kid
I know you’ve had to work hard, to sacrifice, so I could have all the chances that you never did
Nine times in ten you’ve been correct,
it seems I’ve been wrong ten in nine
You know I’m grateful, but with all due respect,
you haven’t let me ask for help in the longest time
I know it’s hard to hear, it kinda hurts to say
But you gotta let me find my own way

I wasn’t cut out to fill your shoes, you know I’ve barely just grown into my own pair
You never said so, but you planted clues, enough for me to know you’ve always been right there
I know I’m not one from whom there’s much to expect
There’s a great deal between us we just don’t understand
I’m grateful for you, but with all due respect
I have no interest in the life you’ve planned
So please I hope you don’t take this the wrong way
But you gotta let me find my own way

I know you worry about just what I’ll do, when it comes to the future I’ve never looked ahead too far
Nothing I’ve done has been very well thought-through, with my debts and schemes and now, this old guitar
Your concerns they are not hard to detect
By now I can almost guess just what they’ll be
It’s not a bad thing, dad, but with all due respect
I wish you’d leave my problems up to me
So if you would please, let come what may—
You gotta let me find my own way

The pioneers, their days are done; there are no new lands left to find
But every person, every single one, must learn this lesson in his own time
There is no telling of what ships I’ve wrecked
Of what precious chances I’ve let fall and break
But I gotta tell ya, with all due respect,
Those decisions were never yours to make
I’m glad you’ve been here, but you won’t be here some day
You gotta let me find my own way

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from Nothin to Write Home About, released June 13, 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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