Shut In

Recording

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I'm lonely and  listless 
        tossing and turning
        comforted only by my duvet

I'm life-worn and loveless
        sitting and starring
        shut in a day after long painful day


I'm used up and useless
        aching and asking
        will this emptiness, please, go away?

I'm forlorn and forgotten
        waiting wondering
        will my life change if I learn to pray?


I know there's a future 
        but life takes such effort
        I don't have much reason to stay 


I'm aging and ageless
        as time slowly passes -
        I tur-ur-urn twenty four today...

                                        Written: April 1997, Edmonton

Chords:

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The story : I met Kim in Hub Mall (in one of those Evenings of Songs that I was organizing then there every second Wed night).
She came with her poetry. I really liked the lyrics (honestly, I was amazed how talentedly it was written - I could never write like that)
and could relate to this particular lyrics so well - I was just 2 years older and living all by myself

The beat sound on the background (in compound meter) immitates my heart beat.
Song came easy and fast, once I put all its lyrics through my soul.

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