A Ditch Worth Dying For

from I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

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I love closing doors, self-harming in bars
Proving my scars are deeper than yours
Bleeding on floors, my sharper claws are
Drawn like the breath you can’t hold anymore

I’m a heart-breaking thief and it beggars belief
How a deadbeat like me could catch and release
I lied without lying, give in too soon
Leave without trying to stay in the room

(Are you) a ditch worth dying for, not how it seems
I’m an extra, in your small-minded dreams
I marched for miles, never moved an inch
And it’s not worth dying in the blood in this ditch

I never missed you more than when you were there
Never was far from a wreck
You never gave me anything I couldn’t take off
I won’t wear you around my neck

(Are you) a ditch worth dying for, not how it seems
I’m an extra, in your small-minded dreams
I marched for miles, never moved an inch
And it’s not worth dying in the blood in this ditch

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from I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot, released May 1, 2020

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Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke Scotland, UK

"Alec perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals...'

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