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Finding liberation in unexpected places.

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Do you ever think, do you ever think
What would life be like if we could do
Whatever we wanted all the time?
Do you ever feel, do you ever feel
Just like the walls are closing in around you?
Do you ever feel confined?
Like the songs you write, they always have to rhyme?
Like every step you take in life just brings you
Closer to the day you die?

I always used to think, I always used to think
Whenever I wanted freedom, I could
Buy it with a dollar and a dime
Then I used to think, then I used to think
The answers lay upon a page in
Some old book that I had yet to find
I was getting nowhere fast and I was falling in the trap
Of navigating worlds of somewhere with
One-thousand nowhere maps

So, hear me out
If you're ever feeling trapped in
If we look to one another
We won't have to look again

Do you ever see, do you ever see
The moon all full and lovely at the
Dead of night when you are all alone?
Does it ever hurt, does it ever hurt
To see such majesty when you are
By yourself and silent as a stone?
Never hesitate to knock upon my door
'Cause if you need some liberation,
That's what I was put here for

So, hear me out
If you're ever feeling trapped in
If we look to one another,
We won't have to look again

Open up your eyes, open up your eyes
There's beauty everywhere you look
Your searching has been keeping your eyes closed
Open up your palms, open up your palms
The light will 'luminate your whole wide
Body from your head down to your toes
Open up the shade, the sun will fill the room
And when the night falls and you're all alone
I'll look up at the moon with you

And when you're finally free
You'll stop looking for the answers and
Come look for me
Because when you share the beauty in life
You are truly free

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from Godspeed, released September 19, 2012

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Jonah Hirst Ithaca, New York

Jonah Hirst is a singer-songwriter and cat enthusiast living in Ithaca, NY.

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