Name: It Can't Be Easy
Duration: P00H04M43S
Description: For IA and KA, with love.

It Can't Be Easy

by Spectator Bird

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For IA and KA, with love.

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I know it can't be easy
To watch me come and go as I please
I never thought myself to be free
Until I watched you watch me leave

My dear, I fear I cause you pain
Does it lessen the longer I'm away?
Oh, curse me and my western ways
Can't make me leave, can't make me stay

I've caught the thousand meter stare
And in my mind's eye you are there
Your shining eyes, your covered hair
Some days it's all too clear to bear

I fear this time I've gone too far
There's no road back to where you are
Show me the script, I'll read the part
Two tin cans stretched across the dark

I know it can't be easy
To be the one who does not leave

My dear, don't underestimate
The fear that your own mind can make
I know 'cause that's the path that mine takes
You turn the key, the engine wakes

And just like that I'm off again
The road grows wide, the road grows thin
Oh what a faulty heroine
I am again and again and again

I know it can't be easy
To be the one who does not leave

I know it can't be easy
To be the one who never leaves

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released January 19, 2019
Lindsey FitzGerald: Vocals, guitar
Rachel FitzGerald: Vocals
Chad Altenberger: Electric guitar, bass, percussion
Written by Lindsey FitzGerald
Photo: Lindsey FitzGerald, Rabat, Morocco

Recorded by Gabriel Taylor at Packing Shed Records in Lovingston, VA. Thanks to Rapunzel's 15th Annual Songwriting Competition and the Further Ado Foundation for making the recording time possible.

Mixed and mastered by Chad Altenberger at Three Arrows Sound in Harrisonburg, VA.

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