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Luke Payne - The Good Fight

from Round 28, Week 6 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I made a valiant attempt at a more elaborate and proggy realization of Corky's instructions. But then it was time to write lyrics and I wrote this instead. So here is a simple one, with only two sections, but they do move from A to Bm. I'm not quite sure what the chorus here means, but it was interesting to me how it uses the standard language of this kind of setting but says the opposite of the usual things with that language. I suspect I'm processing the great shift that is happening now, the recontextualizing of our various inheritances, necessary but complex.

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I probably ought to be working harder than I have been
But I don’t know if it’ll matter in the end
I watch another hurricane gather the gales into a tailspin
I guess we picked the wrong god to offend

I’ve been making ends meet for what feels like a lifetime
A little bit here and a little bit there
I still keep an eye on the horizon for a lifeline
A place to call home and someone to care

I don’t have any honor to defend
Standing here between the sinner and the sin
I’ll keep fighting the good fight but know I won’t win
All of which is to say
not much has changed
and how have you been?

I sold the old house where we used to live in Arlington
To a young couple stumbling into century twenty one
Thought I might like the view a little higher up the mountain
More looking for peace, less chasing fun

I made some friends and we play music in the evenings
We play some Gram and we play some Flatt and Scruggs
I can almost hear your voice on those high harmonies
And I can almost see you there cutting a rug

I don’t have any honor to defend
Standing here between the sinner and the sin
I’ll keep fighting the good fight but know I won’t win
All of which is to say
not much has changed
and how have you been?

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from Round 28, Week 6, released August 10, 2020

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