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I Can't Stay Here Any Longer

from Afterlife by Auricle Records

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lyrics

I Can’t Stay Here Any Longer 4:55

Today, you say, I can’t stay here any longer
Today, you say, I can’t stay here any longer

It seems my house is no longer my home
It seems my house is no longer my home

I’ll have to roam alone


Told to leave, cannot retrieve, the need to breathe the life that was here
I only know, I have to go, and not too slowly walk with my fear

I roam alone, no more a home, where I belonged - now no one beside me
I’ll leave no trace, only a space that has to face - a hand that’s empty

So, this is freedom


My feet they walk, they cannot talk, but if they could, would they ask just what is this freedom?
What is it that, we think we seek, that lies beyond, just what it is, we are needing

My numbers called, I cannot fall, I’ll scale this wall, and steal the bacon
I’ll cross the line, but promise this time, no one defines or defies what I am feeling

But looking down, tears hit the ground, without a sound, a silence that fuels a burning anger
Hold it now - Is this land my land? or a kind of bait that incinerates a yearning soul to embers

So I ask why we leave, just to be deceived, without reprieve, and leave a humanity that could save us
The road is rough, and I am tough enough, to board that bus and find what I’m made of


I can’t stay but I can’t go I can’t stay I can’t go I can’t stay I can’t go, only stray and not know where I'm going
I can’t stay I can’t go I can’t stay I can’t go, only stray and not know where I'm going
No house or no home, no house or no home, no choice but to roam
No house or no home, no house or no home, no choice but to roam


So, this is freedom

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from Afterlife, released November 1, 2022
Gerry Hemingway - vocal, acoustic guitar, drums, sampler
Florestan Berset - electric guitar

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Auricle Records is the artist owned label established in 1978 by composer, percussionist, visual artist and songwriter Gerry Hemingway. For more information visit his website.

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