Jen Schaffer and the Shiners

Lyrics

Stood in the archway
Between going and gonna stay
Chose the one you thought would need
Your care and love
You did believe
He’d love you back
And forever again

Paid for the choice you made
Forgive should trump betray
But learned the lesson much too late
It won’t slow the steady gait
That overcomes
Your own strides
To be free

As time collapses
You will open eyes
Face the fear that
Try to twist the mind
Your story echoes
Through the growing space
Wearing down its trace
Of groove and grind

Story’s older now
It’s hard to till or plow
A soil that never took the seed
But just a fragile weed
That undermined
Your own drive
To be free
So be free