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A reminder that, whatever cards we've been dealt, whatever story we have to tell at the end of it all, the lives we live were set apart for us. They are OUR lives, OUR stories. We will never have another. So, come what may, we'd best make them stories we are proud to reflect on and maybe even tell from our death beds. Our lives, our stories are enough as they are.
*We* are enough as we are. No disappointment no matter how enormous can ever undo that truth.

lyrics

"ME"

1. This wasn't quite the way I thought my life was gonna be.
Dreams of glory, health and youth have all now taken leave.
But, across the glowing embers of the life I longed to live,
A still, small voice reminding me ...

2. Long as I remember here and now were not enough.
The clearest skies were only shades of grey.
Reaching for the heavens but landing in the rough,
Tomorrow only just one more today.
But through the parting clouds of life as I thought it should be
A still, small voice reminding me ....

Chorus #1

This is my life
These are my dreams
These are my fears
This is my dis-ease
This is my beating heart
These my memories
This is my song ...
This is me.

3. Confusing my reflections with man I really was
I didn't know the funhouse mirrors lied,
Or, long ago, the lights went out
My soul lay petrified
And every question's answer: "just because ..."
But when I pulled aside the webs of lies
I thought reality
My true voice reminded me ...

Chorus #2

This is my life
These are my hands
These are my tears
These are my demands
This is my beating heart
My reality
These are my prayers
This is me ....

Reprise

I am through with visions of a 'grand destiny'
The life I live was set apart for me
And I will not quietly into the night
For I was born with everything I need
And, come what may, this moment I am free ....
I am free!

Can you feel it growing now
Can you feel it deep inside
Deep down inside your soul
They say "No man is an island..."
No, no man is an island
But you can sail the seven seas of loneliness

This wasn't quite the way I thought my life was gonna be.

credits

from "Fly on the Wall", released September 30, 2017
MATT ENTWISTLE
lyrics, composition, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, vocal harmonies

ALLY McCOY
piano, keyboards, backing vocals

MEL SOVAK
drums, percussion, backing vocals

IAN ANDRADE
lead guitars

producer
MATT ENTWISTLE

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