Keep it Together

from Stranger by The Waxwings

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3/ Keep it Together [ES]

I don’t know how I’m gonna make it
through the day
And if I make it through today,
will tomorrow be ok?
I got these bad dreams following me
every day and night
I’m losing the battle, never asked for a fight

If you’re bringing me bad news,
don’t come a-knocking at my door
Don’t you bring me no bad news no more

The moon’s out of orbit,
and the sun is untethered
Down here on the ground,
everything’s sliding around
I pray gravity’s holdin’ me down
I’m just trying to keep it together

I got half a mind to stand up
and walk right out of here
The other half is paralyzed
with avarice and fear
I got the world trying to boil my soul
down to zeros and ones
Caught between the bottom line
and the barrel of a gun

Don’t come selling me another way to sleepwalk through another day
No more no more no more
no more no more
I’m going to the other side
where I cannot be quantified
No more no more no more
no more no more

And I know it could be worse,
but it could be a hell of a lot better
Maybe this is what I deserve,
for falling behind the curve,
hanging onto my last nerve
I’m just trying to keep it together

A mountain of sand a million miles high
Every million years that little bird comes by
Some things baby we’re not meant to understand
There’s nothing more that i can say,
just listen what the man say, he say:
Ooh la la la la la la la la
Dance dance dance the night away

Everybody everybody everybody everybody’s waitin’
for a change in the weather
Like a ship out in the rain,
tugging at my anchor chains,
nothing lost and nothing gained
I’m just trying to keep it together

If I had my way,
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
I would tear
this old building down

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from Stranger, released January 1, 2020

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The Waxwings Portland, Oregon

The Waxwings is a band of friends from Portland, OR. We take our diverse musical influences (classical, rock, folk, what have you) and channel them through acoustic instruments to unearth themes of love, loss and the pursuit of soul-searching redemption. ... more

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