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Nobody's Fault

from At Least There Will Be Love by Sam Steffen

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She may not even remember me now, it was so long ago
I recall when she left it was winter again, her footprints had trailed in the snow
And when spring came around they had melted away and by then I had learned to forget
That it wasn’t because she didn’t love me enough that she had been so upset
And I know it don’t do nobody no good to say it now after all this time
But it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault—but mine

There’ve been so many others since her, but she was the first
And maybe it’s just cause I loved her the most, that losing her hurt the worst
And maybe I am still just holding on cause I’m lonesome with everyone else
And maybe I only want her back cause I’m so tired of myself
But whatever it is that’s causing all this, there’s one thing to which I’m resigned
It’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault—but mine

This morning I found an old letter of hers in my desk’s bottom drawer
It contained a long list of things that she missed about me and loved me for
At the end of the note she apparently wrote I will always love only you
And after all of these years what makes me afeared is thinking that it might still be true
I wish I could say I was sorry now, how could I have been so blind
But it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault—but mine

Now as I sit here in familiar solitude, unvisited even by noise
I like to pretend that it had to be so, that neither one of us had any choice
Its easy to feel like she did it to me, like nothing I said was believed
But sometimes the truth creeps in through the roof and says you aint lyin, you’re just self-deceived
Cause she was the one who wanted to stay, and I told her to go, now she’s gone
And its nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault, it’s nobody’s fault—but my own

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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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