The Things I Have To Live Without
If “All You Get” had been the album’s closer this would have been the opener and it feels a lot more like the opening of the movie the album is trying to be.
There are hidden references in “The Things I Have To Live Without” to some of its artistic inspirations and I am dying to share them with you but that wouldn’t be as much fun as letting you try and find them.
The album is full of these deeply woven cameos.
Lyrics
THE THINGS I HAVE TO LIVE WITHOUT
Another flying
constellation of winter birds
starts me crying
and searchin’ for the words to say
that I don’t have
the words today
I’m on the freeway
and I’m following the winter home
It’s gonna be gray
and cold and so alone
at the wrong end of the
telephone but I…
I’m all about stayin’ in
I’m all about hidin’ out
I’m all about wrestlin’ with
the things I gotta live without
I got a white room
with a furnace
and a chair
It’s like a magickal loom
Weaving gold dust
from despair
Cleaving emeralds from the
thin and freezing air
But I’m all about hidin’ out
I’m all about stayin’ in
I’m all about raisin’ doubt
so that I can prove my faith again
I’m all about stayin’ in
I’m all about hidin’ out
I’m all about wrestlin’ with
the things I gotta live without
Credits
Written by Andras Jones
Andras Jones – Vocal & Acoustic Guitar
Ford Pier – Electric Guitar
Arranged by Ford Pier
Recorded by Marc L’esperance
Mixed by Sheldon Gomberg
Production assistance by Marshall Thompson
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