Mind Misaligned

from Summer Triangle by Strummingbird Vegabond

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6. MIND MISALIGNED
Words and music by Rebecca Kelley

For all love that lives and love that is lost
For all that love gives
And the cost of its loss
Life teach me to live
Love teach me to give
Time teach me
To love each moment

Observe reserve persevere preserve
Self-please if you have the nerve
Give to love and love to give
‘Cause living without it gets expensive

So what do you need
And what do you feed
And when is it ever enough
How do you fill and what do you kill
Inside with all this stuff

Ain’t it so easy just to say life’s rough
So hard to soften to find what is tough
For every single yes
There’s an endless list of nos
For every single high
There’s another side that’s low
What do you know?

Feed the will to live with the love you give
To yourself and to everything else
Put my mind aside it’s got me misaligned
Forget what’s in my head
Ask my heart instead
Do you want to live? Yes I do yes I do
How much can you give? Up to you up to you

Let me take it from here I will proceed with care
I know you have good intentions
But you are trapped in convention
If today were your last
Would you spend it in the past

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from Summer Triangle, released January 11, 2023
All songs words and music by Rebecca Kelley
Mixed by Damien Margo
Recorded September 21, 2022 at the Recording Center in Missoula, Montana by Rick Kuschel
Original cover art by Rebecca Kelley
Graphics and videos by Britt Arnesen

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Britt Arnesen Missoula, montana

Britt K. Arnesen is a Montana folksinger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. She plays in the longtime Missoula band Pinegrass. Britt is originally from Juneau, Alaska.

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