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  1. Lose Yourself

From the recording INNERSTATE

Stevo Liscomb plays bass guitar on this track. All other music performed by Charles Milton Gaby.

Lyrics

Lose Yourself
Written by Charles Milton Gaby
Copyright 2023


When I was a child 
My heart was open wide
Nothing to decide
Like a house without a door

All the worries and the wars
Left their tracks across the floor
Til I could not ignore
The restlessness inside

So I joined the fight
Tried to turn the tide
Blinded by the light
To the shadow on my shoes

Felt good being used
But its easy to confuse
What you do for others
And what you do fore you

Sometimes you have to lose yourself
Just to find yourself
When every feeling that you feel
belongs to someone else
You can’t go back to who you were
Who you thought you should have been
Sometimes you gotta lose yourself
to find yourself again

You had life by the tail
You got swallowed by a whale
And no one ever taught you how to fail

Clinging to the choices
Of your childhood voices
The world and all its noises seem the same

My shiny armor rusted
Wishing never to be trusted
With the the saving of the world again 

Sometimes you have to lose yourself
To find yourself
When every feeling that you feel
belongs to someone else
You can’t go back to who you were
Who you thought you should have been
Sometimes you’re gonna lose yourself
to find yourself again

The weary and the broken
Live with losses never spoken 
And mistakes are just the token
For the ride

If wisdom comes from losing
It’s not what you were choosing
But these days you just take
What you can find

When the hero in you dies
Doesn’t matter how you try
You know you gotta fall before you fly

Sometimes you have to lose it all
To find yourself
When all the feelings that you feel
Seem to belong to someone else
You can’t go back to who you were
Who they said you should have been
Sometimes you’re gonna lose yourself
to find yourself again