Name: Dear Life
Duration: P00H05M18S
Description: Originally released as part of the Dowd Records vinyl release The Nevada City Album, Vol. 1; "Dear Life" is a dreamy, jazzy, melancholy wander through a troubled relationship.

Dear Life

by Brett Shady

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Originally released as part of the Dowd Records vinyl release The Nevada City Album, Vol. 1; "Dear Life" is a dreamy, jazzy, melancholy wander through a troubled relationship.

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Lying here
Without the threat of someone near
My mind is free
To roam and scold and punish me
I'd like to be
Just a bit of who I was before

Crushing out
The needless bit that life's about
I'm broken
Can't find the point of crying out
What good is the orange-colored sky
When you dread the day

And I want to hold you when we lose the light
Everything's fine when we keep it inside
Hiding our desperate pleas in sighs
Holding on for dear life

(Saxophone)

And I want to hold you when we lose the light
Everything's fine when we keep it inside
Hiding our desperate fears in sighs
Holding on for dear life

It's too late for me
It's too late for me
God damn you did not take this seriously
I'm afraid I've done all that I can
Hope we come back again

(It's too late...)
Such a long kiss goodbye
My whole life for that look in your eye
(I'm afraid...)
I'll do all that I can
If you'd come back again

(It's too late...)
But I notice above all the crowds
It's just individual clouds
(I'm afraid...)
I knew what had to be done
But it took me 'til now

And I want to hold you when we lose the light
Everything's fine when we keep it inside
Hiding our desperate pleas in sighs
Holding on for dear life

Holding on for dear life
Holding on
I hope my grip is strong
Holding on for dear life

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released August 28, 2020
Guitar & Vocals: Brett Shady
Percussion & Sax: Kenneth Hume Draper
Bass guitar: Jason Graham
Background vocals: Jonathan Hansard
Mellotron: Dana Gumbiner
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Written by Brett Shady
Recorded by Art Echternacht, Dana Gumbiner
Mixed by Dana Gumbiner

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