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Transform Into A New Life

from After All This Time by John Elliott

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lyrics

i like the long way, i like to take my time
a shadow passing slow enough to see
step by step i get where i am going
day by day i end up somewhere new
we are barely here at all before we're gone

i thought about it, i turned it inside out
a ghost of a memory that haunted me and you
i see those pictures now and i know that we were there
i look at them like insects
we were barely there at all before we left
we were barely there at all before we left
we were barely there at all before we left

transform into a new life
live and life decays
i am only grateful
i am only grateful nothing stays
i am only grateful
I am only grateful nothing stays

high above the water, the valley down there below
what secrets did you keep? i want them all to know
how deep it was inside of me, how hard it was to breathe
how hard it was to breathe
how we both needed shelter, that was all
and so it was provided, essential and enough, until it wasn't there at all anymore
it wasn't there at all anymore
a fingernail crescent on my arm
you never meant me harm, but you hurt me
so i got mad and i got free
offices and vehicles imprisoning
so i got sad and i got free
i got free
i got free
i got free

it's not as if i knew it at the time
i saw i was wounded, i could not predict it
of all the skin my fingers traced
how many movies made would never be erased?
of all the skin my fingers traced
how many movies made would never be erased?

i always mean it in the moment
i always mean it at the time
always in the moment
and always at the time
all that changes is my mind
all that changes is my mind
all that changes is my mind

transform into a new life
live and life decays
i am only grateful
i am only grateful nothing stays
i am only grateful
I am only grateful nothing stays

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from After All This Time, released January 27, 2023

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John Elliott San Francisco, California

“John Elliott is the Andy Kaufman of folk music.”

“Post Seinfeld, Post 9/11 Eyebrow Rock.”

“Well crafted and artful songs by a potentially disturbed individual.”

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