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I'm Afraid The Song Is Broken

from Sometimes I Feel Too Much by Cosy Sheridan

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I’m afraid the song is broken
it cannot be repaired
it used to be there was a sort of magic there
it moved like a body
not like a machine
I’m afraid I have broken a dream

This is not the first time all the light has fallen out
the red pen, the eraser, the scissors, the doubt
chiseling away at a living sound
and now my song is lying on the ground

I tried so hard and so long
I asked too much from one song
but when the light falls out, the magic does too
trying’s the one thing I know how to do

like you and like me a song can get tired
there’s a downside to being a really good tryer
you wear out you loved ones, you wear out your friends
this time let’s try not trying again

In Florence there’s a statue that Michelangelo
tossed out into his yard
he broke it apart and threw it away
a frustrated day

so hard so long
broken statues, broken songs
when the light falls out, the magic does too
trying’s the one thing I know how to do
trying is what I know how to do.

© lyrics by Cosy Sheridan, music by Cosy Sheridan and Charlie Koch 2015
Cosyns Music, BMI

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from Sometimes I Feel Too Much, released March 15, 2016

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Cosy Sheridan Harrisville, New Hampshire

Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” Her CD "My Fence & My Neighbor" was in the Top 10 of 2018 on folk radio. "Pretty Bird" was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” - The Chicago Examiner. ... more

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