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Right Where We Left Off

from Failed Novels by Sam Steffen

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Right Where We Left Off ` copyright Sam Steffen 2014

The last time you left, you told them goodbye
You told them you’d write, or call, or at least try
And they said, alright, they said, all our love,
And when you get back, we’ll pick up right where we left off

Will you remember my name? the way I’ll keep yours
Inside of my heart and soul and my kitchen drawers
Or some other place, somewhere it won’t get lost
So we can pick up right where we left off

If we could go back, or maybe go on ahead
If I could remember some of those lovely things we said,
Maybe that’d be alright, maybe that’d be enough
Maybe then we could pick up right where we left off

I wish I could fly, I wish I could swim
I wish I could do any of those things that remind me of him
I wish they’d come back at whatever the cost
I wish I could pick up right where we left off

Maybe there’d be a way, through some kind of grace
Where I could hold on to a light in this pointless chase
Where everything’d freeze every time you said ‘stop,’
Where we could pick up right where we left off

We’ll bust into that room, we’ll go back in time
We’ll show ourselves to ourselves and we’ll tell em everything’s gonna be just fine
And the record will play and the sound will be soft
And then we’ll pick up right where we left off

Just like turning a page to write the next line
Or saving a word so you’ll have something to say next time
You got to hold on, there will be no pause
And then we’ll pick up right where we left off

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from Failed Novels, released November 3, 2014

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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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