Name: Burn the Barn
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: This is the September track for my song a month project that last for four months and then started up again in September.

Burn the Barn

from Demos by Luke Hawley

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This is the September track for my song a month project that last for four months and then started up again in September.

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I’d like to say I’m sorry in advance
For all the mess I’ll leave you with from all my best laid plans
I always thought I’d have the time
Though counting minutes has never been a strength of mine
Now you’ve got a basement full of things
And a barn that’s part repaired and missing its beams
Stuff you’ll never even use
When all you ever wanted was time for me and you

So burn the barn
Set the house on fire
And we’ll retire
Earlier than planned
I know a man
Who’s got a place up in the woods
I’ll bet we could
Stay there for a while
So burn the barn
And set the house on fire

All of my best wishes come too late
I’ll hope your birthday’s happy but I won’t recall the date
My head is full of useful stuff
But most times I cannot find the thing I should be thinking of
All my resolutions seem to fail
I don’t make them to end of may and still I always bail
I have managed only one
When I promised that I’d love you until my days were done

I keep using all these words
To say I’m sorry for the things that I cannot seem to do
As if I might convince you that some future me will finally treat some future you the way I’ve always wanted to
But the truth is I’m as busted as that basement full of useless things and all I’ve really got to offer to you is all these stupid songs I sing

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from Demos, track released September 16, 2021
My lovely wife, Sarah, who continues to love me despite my difficulties finishing things.

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