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c.2000 Written in Worcester MA as an exercise in using open chords and traditional verse/chorus structure, which I’d avoided since my early teens, after hearing “How Sleeps the Brave” by Todd Weakley, who is responsible for introducing me to the Theatre of the Oppressed by semi-sneaking me into a training with Augusto Boal

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Anytime you walk by
I feel so careless about my life.
Why haven’t I put more into it?
Why haven’t I gotten around to doing it?
But this song is not an epitaph.

Anytime I’m outside
I know there’s more in a moment
Than I could use in a lifetime
And I walk by.
But this song is not an epitaph.
I’m dying but I’m still alive.

Books and literature won’t placate this insight.
All those things I’m so sure of
Won’t make it right.
But this song is not an epitaph.

Anytime I’m alive
I want to feel the fullness of this life.
But why haven’t I put more into it?
Why haven’t I gotten around to doing it?
I’m dying, but I’m still alive.
And this song is not an epitaph.

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from Goodnights for Meadow, released April 15, 2020
elizaBeth Simpson, vocals and 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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