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Overcome​-​EP (produced by Bob Brockmann)

by Sam Deffenbaugh

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Charlene Button Favorite song. Maybe of all time. At this point. But also, Damsel. and Hear Me Out. And Stillborn Fire. Favorite track: Virginia.
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1.
When you say you like the way I lie That don’t mean you love the things I hide Just the way you’re vindicated Just the way you know you’re mine And here I’ll stay and why not I’m just stealing time from borrowed clocks And in time I’ll find I’ve wrought All the things I am not When you say you want me in control That don’t mean you want me on the floor Just the way you’re vindicated Just the way you know you’re mine Here I’ll stay and why not I’m just turning keys in open locks And in time I’ll find I’ve wrought All the things I am not Here I’ll stay and why not I’m just turning keys in open locks And in time I’ll find I’ve wrought All the things I am not
2.
As our breath turns to stand We’re standing here with one plea Say the end is now Well just look around Cuz salvation is just a chance to flee And I find it hard to believe Cuz I find it hard to die And I find it hard to believe That we are all running from the sky How can men of faith be cynics? Cowards who won’t give up the Ghost? And how can I be so damn sure? When distrust is the excuse of the insecure And I find it hard to believe Cuz I find it hard to die And I find it hard to believe That we are all running from the sky And I find it hard to believe Cuz I find it hard to die And I find it hard to believe That we are all running from the sky
3.
Virginia 03:14
Take me far away from here Where spent candles have no hold And we gaze into sticker starlight Reminding of weeks grown old I can hear it ringing out Under Virginia skies No bridges left to burn Or heroes to watch die (Repeat) The girls walk like reflections Always mirroring your steps But out of time to the music Until only a reflection’s left I can hear it ringing out Under Virginia skies No bridges left to burn Or heroes to watch die (Repeat)
4.
Under a curtained sky she meets him She’s shared a room with his letters But we don’t talk about them And in a distant life her son wakes His knuckles bruised and bleeding But we don’t talk about them She’s coming back to life now And screaming at her life now If this is, if this is your goodbye We won’t talk about it In between smoggy friends she fidgets No more questions now, her screams rebound We don’t talk about them And in the night they come to visit Their lights dance above her window But we don’t talk about them She’s coming back to life now And screaming at her life now If this is, if this is your goodbye We won’t talk about it She’s coming back to life now And screaming at her life now If this is, if this is your goodbye We won’t talk about it Under a curtained sky she meets him She’s shared a room with his letters We don’t talk about them And through a looking glass I stare now Her arms weighted with my letters We don’t talk about them
5.
Breakthrough 04:53
6.
What does he leave for? It don’t demean him just to love her But love it comes and goes unmourned It’s early morning and I love it But love it comes and goes I missed a call for A useless call for Evolution, evolution (Repeat) And to the pale-lit crown That he kept around in mourning But love it grows like thorns In admiration and fixation he loves her But love it comes and goes I missed a call for A useless call for Evolution, revolution I missed a call for A useless call for Evolution, evolution (Repeat)
7.
Overcome 05:39
Us kids grew up in the winter of decline Reaching higher like it’s a birth right that we climb But 18 years came and dearly departed went Like the rage we let so foment Try to say it again, but you find that you never really want to If you say “I love you”, do I really want you to? A country we cross like neo-49ers After the jobs we’ve chased as mercenaries for higher But this place only seemed like home Once the seed of need was twice so desperately sown Try to say it again, but you find that you never really want to If you say “I love you”, do I really want you to? Middle-class expands as their greed demands The blood of the new unto the temple of the land So while us kids grew up in winter’s hand It was in autumn that we’re harvested from the land Try to say it again, but you find that you never really want to If you say “I love you”, do I really want you to? So though obscure our bonds might be (we’re overcome) I recall they arose from under the childhood tree Seed of doubt for we grew too fast (we’re overcome) Raised in Decline baptized in lies (we’re overcome) So though one day our fates might change (we’re overcome) We see hope lost to a three-digit exchange (we’re overcome) And the family splits like a tree in the yard (overcome” Singing “not long now” “not long now” And not far

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released September 29, 2015

All music and lyrics by Sam Deffenbaugh

Featuring:

"Bassy" Bob Brockmann-Producer/Engineer/Mixing/Mastering/Guru
www.bassybob.com

Peter Kerfoot-Drums

Peter Sargent-Vocal harmonies on "Breakthrough"

Ben Chin-Guitar solo on "Breakthrough"

Sam Plotkin- Vocal harmony on "Virginia"

Album art by Charley Button www.ldcproductions.com

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Sam Deffenbaugh Chicago, Illinois

I picked up the guitar in elementary school because I wanted to be Paul Simon. Times have changed and influences have come and gone. Now I love everything from Radiohead and FlyLo to Rage, but I'm still a sucker for a good melody. I hope you enjoy what you hear and thanks for listening! ... more

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