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This is the twenty-sixth of my proposed 262 song-a-weeks. Wish me luck! And thanks for listening. If you wanna see the video, it's here: youtu.be/5nJoyb4XIow - and if you want to help me keep doing this, throw me a buck a week at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/BrendanMilburn

lyrics

every day I face the fear that I'm irrelevant and dated, that I'm only taking space up here until the day I die
every day I worry that my market's oversaturated, there is no room at the table, there will be no piece of pie

for me to eat my fill
I might as well update my will

and for twenty years I've tried and tried to make things out of nothing and convince the world my nothing-things are just the thing they need
I've had a taste of turkey gravy, now I'm addicted to the stuffing, I've had just enough success to know that I cannot succeed

if I go on like this
going broke and clawing after my bliss

but now I'm
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
doing something to help others, I am
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
helping out my sisters and my brothers
see, before I wasn't thriving, I was striving to survive
now for the first time in twenty years I can finally breathe and feel alive
yeah I actually got my head out of my ass, and man the view is great, there's so much more out here to see
yeah I'm actually doing something: I'm getting people where they oughta gotta be.

I take people to the airport, I take people home from bars, and I go pick up food they ordered and I bring it to their door,
I am taking care of people, keeping drunks out of their cars, and this line of work is working for me, why didn't I think of this before

I lived so long with less,
& this feels like happiness,

where I'm ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
making just a little difference,
I am ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
ACTUALLY
no longer jumping off a cliff since
I found a way to find a little meaning while I heal,
I found a way to make a little living, and it's real,
it is actually helping pay some bills and keeping me from unraveling and coming all apart at the seams
it is actually a way of keeping going while I'm reaching for new dreams.

credits

from brendan & the over​-​extended circumstances (262 songs, volume 2), track released January 29, 2017
The driving w/navigation app photo is by Dan Gold and came from unspash - thank you!
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn.
copyright (c) 2017 by Brendan Milburn
administered by WB Music Corp

All rights reserved, but if you wanna use this for something reach out to me and and let's work something out.

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Brendan Milburn Seattle, Washington

Brendan Milburn is a music teacher and a dad. In his former life he wrote musicals, songs for animated movies, shows for theme parks and cruise lines. He used to play in a band called GrooveLily. Now he has chickens, cats, and kids, and he is making a song a week. ... more

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