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Tell Me Something I Don't Already Know

from At Least There Will Be Love by Sam Steffen

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You woke me with a question from your distant past you said it was not urgent but it would require some attention soon
I followed up by askin what you meant by that but this was later some time long after you had already left the room
The times we’ve tried have not been few, although communication has perhaps at times been rare
And tho I’ve said, it’s up to you, it’s clear to me that you’d prefer that it remain unshared

And that’s alright, if that’s your style
You’ve got that right, you’re not on trial
I’d appreciate it if the next time tho
You’d tell me something that I don’t already know

I recall that you returned to me, eventually, with an apology you said you couldn’t write but had to say to me
That spoke of things that never were, that tried to be, that might have been perhaps if only it hadn’t been for me
You called me names, suggested lies, pretended I had only been your enemy
You said, “Love is born, it lives and dies, and people change and are a challenge to their destiny—”

And you’re not wrong, that’s not quite it
Cause you don’t belong with me I’ll admit
But the next time that you come to say you have to go
Tell me something that I don’t already know

We’ve covered all this ground before, there’s nothing new to speak of with regards to where it leaves us, where we must remain
I know you’ll go on hoping I’m a wound to you while I’ll go back to dreaming at the drawingboard, my windowpane
And all that’s left of all that was in me will linger faintly as a residue
And looking down, from up above, perhaps at last you’ll catch the contrast in our points of view

But if you don’t because you choose
And say you won’t because you’d lose
The chance to tell the mighty that they’ve fallen low
Well tell me something that I don’t already know

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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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