It's Not Me

from Home, In Your Place by on the rye

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so long has it been stealing friend
stealing like a wake in the wind
i like the way it makes me feel
and i’m living still
there’s a love growing in my head
it suddenly arose and it’s fierce
it’s like a dream i had;
you were very near
so now I get a loss just gone and then i say;
what do i need, what do i see,
that how, and the how to know
was it anything inside another
i’m just waiting for the train to stop
bullets break into my home
and suddenly wake me up
but there you are again just leaving
it’s not, it’s not me
how do you get along?
yourself, you said you cry
you said you had another thought
and you’re never gonna leave this one behind
but i said it was easy
it was better than this
and they couldn’t know me, no
it’s still afraid to go
i'm still afraid to show what i might believe in
and i’m sitting still
i got enough to deal with
there’s sleep inside my eyes
it’s not, it’s not me
it’s not, it’s not me
so where do you go now?
where do you live?
where do you chose a house, a love, a gift, and the kids
there’s nothing here
i can’t say that there is
but i like to still believe
what’s so wrong with believing in yourself
it’s like the things that they said were always wrong
they never knew it very well
so what did i ever see in them?
i got another dream, i got another book to read
i got another glass to drink and another hit to smoke
i got another little love inside and another time to try
and these are all the things i keep
aside from what i leave behind
and i’m not singing very well
it’s not, it’s not me

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from Home, In Your Place, released November 23, 2017

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on the rye Houston, Texas

'on the rye' is a singer-songwriter born from the pines of North Carolina and raised elsewhere.

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