Country fate

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Country fate - texte © Julie Turconi, musique et voix © FX Liagre 2013 (premier jet !)

Living in the past
With your high school sweetheart
In your parents’ old house
Stuck in your bloody hometown

The place where you grew up
Turned into a lifelong sentence
Still a soft spot in your heart though
No matter what you do

All the memories
Of your vanished youth
So shiny and bright
Nothing’s left today but an empty shell

The future let you down
And the world doesn’t need you
Condemned to this semblance of life
Where are your dreams gone?

Looking for hope
In all the wrong places
Searching for gold
At the bottom of the bottle

So weak and poor
In your heart and soul
Bitter taste of failure in your mouth
Have you ever believed it could different?

So much for your aspirations
And career, and ambitions
Nothing can save you now
Except what you don’t have:

Faith,
And hope,
And passion.

You’re digging your own grave
And man, I’m just watching you
Hoping it’ll set me free
And help me beat the odds.

© Julie Turconi
Montréal, le 28 février 2013