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Don't Stay

from Halfway to the Sky by Josie Martin

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lyrics

The sunlight settles in the evening fields
where we stay sometimes when the world is too real
I know you don't like to stay up late,
but I can't find dream in this sweltering heat
Won't you keep me company, while I wait for relief?

I need you with me on the other side baby
I can't go knowing you'd be here
You know they'll always find us if we stay
Oh and leaving's the only way.

Yeah, on the other side, everything looks different
Even me and you, but I still love you like I do and
Nobody worries bout a thing, no not a thing
Not even time or money or how we're gonna pay the bills
Or why everyone is taking pills, oh what a shame

You know I don't like, you know I don't like,
You know I don't like to medicate
Or put myself into a passive state, oh I can't see straight
But I won't stay
Woah, I will not stay, ooh

You know I don't like, you know I don't like
to waste the days away, aw
You know I don't want, you know I don't want
to leave you here this way oh

I need you with me on the other side, oh you know it's true
I know I'm young, but I know what I want and girl it's you

Now we grow a garden by a cabin in the woods
and girl I know you never thought it'd be this good and
I'm gonna love you like I should, but never could
when the world was weighing on me like it used to
Woah, ooh I'm free. Free as a bird flying high up in the sky
But how I wish I didn't have to leave all these people behind that I love
Oh what a shame

There ain't no time to waste, ain't no time to hate
Woah, there is an escape
Don't listen when they try to tell you,
you don't have a choice to stay or go, you can always leave and
You best believe, there's more than what they offer up
And tell me do you have enough, is there more that you dream of?
Oh don't stay, whah don't stay

There's more through the door, all you have to do is explore
What are you waiting for and don't stay,
woah, don't stay darlin'
Come along, come along, come along, come along this way
and don't stay and don't stay (x a lot)

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from Halfway to the Sky, released January 15, 2016
Recorded and Mixed by Matt Firek at Fire K Studios

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Josie Martin Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

My music exists to me as a source of comfort in the face of life's mysterious unfolding.

It doesn't claim to be an answer, nor is it a home for those who seek to quell the absurdity of wondering about what can never be known.

It is emotion.
It is satire.
It is art.
It is infinite.
It is.
As I wish to be. ... more

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