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c. Spring 2015. Written as a breakup song a couple of months before they broke up with me, mostly while circling around and around the top of the NCSA parking garage in Urbana, IL on a bike, at sunset.

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“This is the Hour of Lead---
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the snow---
First--- chill--- then stupor--- then the letting go---”
(Emily Dickenson, “After great pain a formal feeling comes” 1862)

This is how Letting Go starts---
noticing there’s already parts missing.
This is how letting go starts---
noticing you’re already Letting Go.

This is how I get free---
unearthing passion that were buried
under shovel fulls of “what if”s and “maybe”s:
this is how I get free.

You used to be my Why---
now, you’re just “because.”
You know, somebody wise told me:
“Let it be what it was”

It’s a strange thing: watching our Sunset.
And I’ve been frustrated ‘cause it’s not a new day yet.
I realize you’re not my best bet
‘cause the colors have been fading since when we first met.
I’m struggling with longing, but not regret.
I’m so goddamned ready for what comes next.
I’m brighter than this Darkness.

This is a moment of Truth,
and I’ll forget it, though I’ll remember you---
it’s when I decided I wanted more than just Making Do---
this is a moment of Truth.

This is how Letting Go starts:
noticing there’s already parts missing.
This is how Letting Go starts---
noticing you’ve already been Letting Go.

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from Goodnights for Meadow, released April 15, 2020
elizaBeth Simpson vocals, guitar. Amanda Ramey, violin.

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elizaBeth Simpson Urbana, Illinois

elizaBeth has been a vocalist and guitarist since 1992. She is a cultural worker who specializes in collaborative projects with people who don't think they are creative, and is the founder of the We Wanna Woke Community Justice Street Choir.

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