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Do You Have Me Now?

from At Least There Will Be Love by Sam Steffen

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Bout the hour the sun goes down, I get to thinking of leaving town
The trains and traffic they make their sounds, a blood within me begins to pound
She calls to tell me she’s on her way, she knows I get round that time of day
Feeling like I’d be stuck to stay, better off just a goin way

I feel my feet start to leave the ground
I step away and I’m fallin down
I feel your arms they’re around me now
But tell me, babe, do you have me, now?

I’m hardly home and I’m highway bound
I’m known to run at the smallest sound
I’m known to hide where I won’t be found
So tell me, babe, do you have me, now?

Lifted out of the mangled mess, I’m back out on the top, I guess
Just wrestling the restlessness, I won’t win but I’ll do my best
She’s sturdy as frozen stone, does alright when she’s on her own
The kindest of the kind of known, the closest I’ve ever been to home

I think I’d live if she left me now
And if I left would I be allowed
I could love if you’d show me how
But tell me, babe, do you have me now?

I feel your kisses against my brow
I hear you say that we should and shall
I hear you say you don’t need no vow
But tell me babe do you have me now?

She keeps me close and she holds me tight, walks me through each and every night
She ain’t afraid to put up a fight, makes it seem like it’ll be alright
But in the morning she leaves again, and tho she says she’ll come back again
And tho I tell her I’ll see her then, I always hope I’ll still be here then

I spread my wings and she holds me down
I try to swim and she helps me drown
I start to cry and she calls me clown
But tell me babe do you have me now?

Cause I can fly without leavin ground
And I can dive without goin down
And I can kid without foolin round
So tell me babe do you have me now?

About a mile down the railroad track, I get to thinking of thinkin back
I wonder if she would take me back, if she knew I was comin back
Left a note in her dresser drawer, sayin how I just wasn’t sure
Sayin how I would lock the door, but not to wait up for me no more

Tell me babe, would you have me now?
Now that you know that I’m broken down?
Now that you know I don’t wear no crown?
Now that you know I won’t stick around?

Tell me babe do you have me now?
Now that I’m somewhere behind you now?
Now that at least I can’t hurt you now?
Now that I can’t desert you now?

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from At Least There Will Be Love, released July 31, 2016

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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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