The Alleviators - Hit The Ground Stumbling

from SpinTunes 20 Round 1 by Spintunes

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lyrics

I don’t need a torch or a candle
Comfort kills adventure dead
Took a flight up over the handles
Landed where no angels tread

I trust I’m not completely lost now
I should have learned to read these stars
I’m really starting to regret
Leaving the map in the car

When the sun goes down
I feel my stomach sinking
What was I proving
What was I thinking
When it comes back around
Hard ground
I hit the ground stumbling
Somewhere so cold and numbing

I think I missed an incoming call
Somebody please give me a sign
A garden living in four walls
With fruit all dead on the vine

Now the hesitation leads to ruin
Near misses leaving deeper wounds

When it all comes down
And the smoke is stinging my eyes
Who am I pleasing
With all this leaving
Frozen fast by the sound
Of the endless next thing coming
I strain to hear it
The song my heart’s been humming
And I hit the ground stumbling
Towards some remembered light
To a time I got it right

And when they find me out
I know it's too late now
What could I do but run
Not who I could become
When the doors start closing
Do you jump?
What can you do but jump?

When it all comes down
And the smoke is stinging my eyes
Who am I pleasing
With all this leaving
Frozen fast by the sound
Of the endless next thing coming
I strain to hear it
The song my heart’s been humming
And I hit the ground stumbling
Towards some remembered light

credits

from SpinTunes 20 Round 1, released March 21, 2023

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