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When life throws everything up in the air.

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So your life has been been thrown in the air once again
You're having to be your own best friend
and embrace this empty space as a brand new start.

You can pack everything that you own in an hour
You've chosen to live in life's solitary tower
but you don't feel freedom - you feel like you're falling apart.

It's an hourly exchange between hope and despair
Both take you away from the here, they're both over there.

You never envisaged living this way
You're needed by nobody night-time or day
with freedom to do as you please whenever you like.

Got nothing of permanence tying you here
Just one little toe on this planet you fear
Have you done it all totally wrong?
Or is it alright...

Cos every day you get just what you need
That little toe touching the earth will soon be full feet
It's just life beginning again
It's nowhere near the end
Just some turbulence as all your plans fall to the ground
Sometimes we need times like these to turn things around.

Does this blank canvas make you a cold empty vessel?
A concept with which you have constantly wrestled
Yet being in this place in your life you've so much to give.

You've got time, you've got space, you're in no kind of race
and in spite of the pain etched all over your face
in the comfort of your broken heart many would love to live.

It's a very fine line between hope and despair
It takes so much effort to shine when you struggle for air
Yet what you bring is needed here
the impact you're making will one day be clear
Just wait and see where those cards land on the ground
but please don't imagine a world where you're not around.

You can dismantle all that you own in an hour
but the steps that you've taken reflect your true power
Let go of all outcomes, expectations sour
You've planted your seeds...now wait 'til they flower.

You're worried that people will think you're a fool
Not followed convention, walked off from it all
but your door's always open, you knocked down your wall
This cold empty vessel's in fact very full.

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from Freedom From a Rented Life, released June 4, 2021
Written, performed and recorded by © Karen McCabe 2020
Track photography by Michael Bradley
Audio mixing by Matt Fleming at Minus Tone

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Karen McCabe Windsor, UK

Singer-pianist from Windsor, UK.

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