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I Couldn't Stay (Sam Katz)

from We'll Make It Together by AllOne

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I met my dear and talented friend Sam Katz (an upstate NY native) while at school at SUNY Oswego. We got along swimmingly and talked about collaborating for a while, she said she had a song that she was willing to invite me on and I sat in her dorm for a few hours while we jammed, inspired by the song she presented to me, to write about a crumbling relationship and the feelings of lonesomeness and longing that go with that. Musician and music major Kyle Wodzicki recorded the song in his dorm room. Kyle Crowell directed and produced a music video for this song. Sam later released the original edition of this song on her fantastic and heartbreaking debut album "The People We Know" which you can find on her soundcloud page!

Music Video For This Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyqvBvgPfP4

lyrics

SAM
Your body's warm
when you lie next me
but i am sure
that the only thing that's
keeping me from falling
is there inside

the way you turn
you never reach for me
and I'm concerned
that you don't wanna be
anything like the way
I wanna be

chorus:
and I don't know what I'm waiting for
when you still don't know what you're looking for
and all these silly thoughts that come inside my mind
I turn them blind
I turn them blind
I turn them blind

AllOne:
Life's been lonely, eyes are closing,
blind and groping, I am hoping,
to find a homely, kindly glowing,
light to show me it'd like to hold me
but I've been only, aligned to groaning,
sighed echoing in an abyssal distance,
I can sense it, an abysmal emptiness
chiseled malicious within our amicable friendship.
I'm a miserable wreck when meticulously sifting
through the dismal dead hints
critically through every sentence.
Each paragraph I pair in half
and I have a graph I'm staring at
to seek adhesive treasure,
then I piece each patch of pleasure
in our speech and even gestures
and weave them back together,
snuggled deep in panicked efforts,
to deceive my demon's temper,
and retrieve some pleasing tender
eager relief remembered,
to achieve being a member
settled peacefully in Eden's center.
As I lie by myself and meekly shiver in this position, though I know better,
I lie to myself of our weakened differed disposition, though we'll get no better.

SAM:
Well baby, I
I saw something in you
you didn't try
to be someone you knew
and I am all out of flaws
for you to choose

so run away
never look back again
don't try to say
that you are innocent
cause I am tired
my heart is spent

chorus:
and I don't know why I even try
when I'm so obviously not on your mind
and if you never thought that I would walk away
I couldn't stay
I couldn't stay
I couldn't stay

AllOne:
She couldn't stay, I stained her with disdain,
if you strain to push too great to try to make
them fall in love they just fall away and then walk the same.
Though they awfully ache from how often pain's
endurance begs this quill turn all it's ways,
I cross in vain my fingers that I'll cross paths with her,
I crossed her once, and we withered,
because she couldn't endure,
so we parted ways,
I hope one day we'll cross our legs,
while we lay, limbs warm.
But its so far obvious, we're polar opposites and
no bother how hot she is, this pillow is still cold.
My lids closed, shut to cry, though cut and dry,
I run and hide, feeling something like
I'll erupt inside, I justify “I'll adjust if I recognize
magnetism does require antonyms”
And although attractive it's looking bad
that I'll acquire a chance again.
Although we need each opposed pole to adhere,
My eyes are still sewn closed and I fear,
opening them both because it's so clear,
Rip Van Winkle, will wake to wrinkles in the sheets she left here,
I'll just inhale her perfume that hangs in the dead air,
and solemnly hang my head there
(a spent response, my silhouette imparts
the image of a question mark that truly represents my heart. )
chorus:
and I don't know why I even try
when I'm so obviously not on your mind
and if you never thought that I would walk away
I couldn't stay
I couldn't stay
I couldn't stay

credits

from We'll Make It Together, released November 28, 2013
Sam Katz- Lyrics/Guitar (facebook.com/samkatzmusic or reverbnation.com/samkatz)
AllOne- Lyrics
Kyle Wodzicki- Recording/mixing (facebook.com/afterthoughtsny)

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Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

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