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Too Soon

from False Foundations by Rachel Marie

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There's a scene I painted, or maybe two or three
Your tiptoes met a canyon that would take you from me
And you knew you could fly, and I knew you could die
And your mind wouldn't let you be
I still wake up sometimes thinkin' it's a nightmare
That something so dark couldn't take such a brilliant soul
And I want you to know that you're still shining
And that I still don't feel whole

​And I wanna cry, "Babe, what have you done?"
But I know
And weren't you the one who said, "Don't let your friends go
too soon"?​

Well, you know, I think if love conquered all we would've done it by now
Before the sand in this glass ran out
Or before the glass was shattered on the floor
And it shouldn't be that we don't see
Or choose to see things clearly
Until the girl in the ground is yours
And it shouldn't have to matter whose daughter she was
Or whose sister she was or whose lover she was
She was human and, goddammit, that's enough
And if your prayers let you off the hook
And you won't look at where the killer lives
Then I think you need a different kind of love​

And I'm crying, "Babe, what could I have done?"
I just don't know
And I'm torturing myself, honey
When did I let my friend go?​

And what's thirty seconds versus thirty hours?
We're all so tiny anyway – it wasn't that long
God didn't even blink and somehow you're not hours
But you can't be lifeless, you're so damn strong​

And I'm crying, "Babe, what can be done?"
I need to know
'Cause we've laid our roses down
But I can't let my friend go

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from False Foundations, released May 5, 2018
Music and lyrics by Rachel Marie Schachter

Rachel Marie Schachter: vocals, guitar
Bill Schachter: acoustic bass guitar
Diane Perry: violin

Produced by and engineered by William James Hall, Dragonfly Alley

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Rachel Marie follows in a tradition of unapologetically forthright women folksingers, with songs that hearken to "overstuffed lines of Tori Amos, philosophical turn of Indigo Girls, and lilting vocals like Joni Mitchell." The social awareness of folk meets the introspection of the singer-songwriter tradition with a moderate dose of snark. ... more

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