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Reason to Believe

from Reason to Believe by Westerly

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She quieted the last bit of her trembling
And lay her head down on the table by the phone
Let her mind drift back to every bit of knowing that was given to her a long time ago
The way her mother used to say that there’s a meaning
In the way that broken people learn to sing
The way the world is built through struggle with blood sweat and muscle
The constant rebirth that controls everything

She put a kettle on the stove and lit the burner
Then she waited for the whistle that it gave
Closed her eyes to hold his image a little longer
Let it linger keep his memory safe
She knew her father as a man without direction
Who got lost somewhere in life along the way
Some men they search for meaning
Come up empty go on careening from that moment to their last day

So quit your crying she said tell yourself a story
About the way you wish the world was born to be
And when you’re finished with your faith and doubt
Close your eyes turn the lights out
You gotta find yourself a reason to believe

She filled a mug and sipped it standing at the counter
Put on her coat and grabbed her keys went on her way
Boarded a bus to the downtown transit station
Punched into work like it was any other day

So quit your crying she said tell yourself a story
About the way you wish the world was meant to be
Make your facts out of your fictions if it gets you through the friction
If it gives you a reason to believe

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from Reason to Believe, track released May 15, 2020

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East Bay Indie-Folk for people who want to be considered both hip and pretentious

Sterling Spence, Brandon Seinturier, Chance Cochran, Scott Wilson, Gordon Allen, and Leah Woodard.

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