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I had forgotten about this entirely completed song until recently. If you write in an artist's sketchbook like me, sometimes a page seems like there's nothing behind it. Pages get creased or ink heavy.

The song is pure pain. If you know me, you know the subject oh so well. You may be surprised to know that the first few lines are actually about a different woman, someone who told me, in all seriousness, that she thought "her heart was closed forever." That stunned me. A few years older now; I get it. But, what a horrible self-realization. I stopped writing the song at some point, and then later finished it off as the sorrow about someone much more important me just never seemed to end. All details are true. As you can tell if you watch the video, it is both physically exhausting and emotionally draining for me to get through. I'm proud of this performance, though.

Demons be gone? But what if the demon is lovely and clever?

lyrics

Thought you were the one but our little time together
Makes me wish that you were ready to move on
Makes me wish that I was ready to move on

I understand that your heart is closed forever
Still I swear there is no place I’d rather be (2X)

Still I want to know what has happened and still haunts you
Across the years how could you let it win? (2x)

Chorus: ba, ba, ba….don’t take her from meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (2x)

For years I waited for the showdown that would send you
Forever right into my waiting arms (2X)

It can never be for the bullet that has claimed you
It took my heart as well as it took you (2x)

Chorus: ba, ba, ba….don’t take her from meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (2.5x)

credits

from Songs from the Old House​/​MADRID, released August 1, 2018
Acoustic Guitar and Lead Vocals: Scott Brookman
Recorded “live” to smashed Samsung cell phone as .mp4 video file. No edits. Location: Large Kitchen at the Old House, Salem, VA. 18 June, 2018

Yani Martinelli: Piano. Location: Pozuelo Rockin' Guitars, Madrid. July 18 and 20, 2018

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