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Fifty Years

from Salt And Sand EP by Alex Villanueva

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Stop this train and let me off I think
I've found where I'm supposed to be.
Long I've traveled to be here
And now this road of dirt and petrichor's where
home is meant to be
Hear me loud and hear me clearly
I have spoken for so long but no one knows these words.
They were written on a parchment
It's been yellowed with the passage of these storms

The tide is high in New England
And I swam in all these waters in 20 years along the coast
And I still got plenty more to haunt these frigid rivers like a ghost.
I've been working by the sunset, I've been playing by the moon
And I've still got 50 years at least, but 50 years from now is coming soon.

And with the summer comes the rain
And with that rain there comes a certain kind of doubt.
I've got this itch to hop a train
And be lost among the forests in the South.
I've been finding that I'm falling
Into patterns that I never thought I would.
And it's all because I've been here for too long
I'd leave tomorrow if I could.

The sun is high in New England
And I've hidden in the shade for 20 years in towns of old.
But I still got 50 winters left to sing and strum these chords out in the cold.
I've been praying for the summer, I'm done anticipating fall.
And I've still got fifty years at least, but fifty years ain't any time at all.

(bridge)

I've been a while in New England
I been sitting by the water twenty years I been watching all the boats.
And I still got plenty more to haunt these placid rivers like a ghost.
I've been slaving by the sunset, I've been banging on this guitar by the the moon.
And I still got fifty years at best, but fifty years from now'll come too soon.

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from Salt And Sand EP, released June 26, 2015
Alex Villanueva - Songwriting, Guitar

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