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I used to shuffle to the corner
To the tea and coffee stand
And boast about the night before with pride
If I ever get my life back
It’s the first place I will go
It’s the only place to head for when you’ve died
And I’ve died a thousand times

Now the nurse has pulled the sheets back
And the doctors have gone home
Everyone I know is gathered round the bed
My enemies on my right side
Friends are on the left
But you are somewhere dead inside my head
Not deep inside my bed

Oh, where are you tonight
Without your light
I am only a shadow of my former self

I can feel their fingers on my fingers
As one by one the rings come off
Then icy water’s poured onto my burning chest
I lift my head to kiss you
But I’m pushed back down to earth
“There’s no time for that, you’d better get some rest
Don’t you know, you’ve been blessed?”

Oh, where are you tonight
Without your light
I am only a shadow of my former self

Oh, let me sleep on it tonight
Days and nights
Are beginning to bleed into one, into non

I can see a light now
It’s come to take me home
I’m as naked as the day that I was born
Their hands reach out to stop me
Too late, I’m already gone
As I fly away my bloody limbs are torn
From my body that floats free
It’s just me.........I’m coming home.

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from A New Kind Of Loneliness, released April 10, 2020

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Michael Weston King Montgomery, UK

Former leader of Alt. Country pioneers, The Good Sons, 12 years a solo artist and currently 1/2 of award winning country soul duo My Darling Clementine.

"King has a voice part Nashville balladeer and part Alt Country hero, a cross between Nick Cave and Rodney Crowell"
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