Always Almost Leaving

from The Devil's Share by Steven Heighton

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ALWAYS ALMOST LEAVING

We’re always almost leaving
But in the end we never part
We’re almost always leaving
Then we come back to the start
But the start is far behind us
And the end’s too hard to face
“It’s all over but the grieving”
Or so we said so many days

We’re always almost leaving
But in the end we never do
I left again this morning
Tonight I’m here with you

They say that safe in harbour
Is no place for a ship to be
But it’s rougher than an ocean here
And as deep as any sea

There’s a shore between sleep and waking
Between helplessness and power
There’s a line between whole and breaking
It can vanish in an hour

We’re always almost leaving
But in the end we never can
Last night we took two different roads
Yet we wake as one again

There’s a shore between sleep and waking
Between helplessness and power
There’s a line between whole and breaking
They’ll change places in an hour

But the days turn into decades
And that life was lives ago
Now we stand on different stages
And we improvise alone
Some see life as one long goodbye
Some hear only hello
Some say all good things must die
Some believe that they just flow

They say that safe in harbour
Is no place for a ship to hide
To wake is to feel wind fill your sails
On a course to lives untried

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from The Devil's Share, released April 24, 2021
Lyrics and music by Steven Heighton. © 2020 Steven Heighton/Hightone Music (SOCAN).

Hugh Christopher Brown: Piano, organ
Steven Heighton: vocals, guitar
Tony Scherr: better guitar
Jason Mercer: bass, stealth banjo

The Devil’s Share released April 2021 by Wolfe Island Records/CRS Europe.

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Steven Heighton Kingston, Ontario

Heighton is the author of 18 books--novels, poetry, stories, and nonfiction. He has published work in Granta, the New York Times, Tin House, London Review of Books, Best American Poetry, and many others. His first album, "The Devil's Share," produced by Hugh Christopher Brown of Wolfe Island Records, will be released April 21, 2021. ... more

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