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More about my niece who got cancer at age 13. And her poor parents, and what I imagine it must feel like to be them.

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We are circling around and around
Suspended in the sky two miles above the lovely ground
We are banking we are turning we are leveling off and I’m
Beginning to think we’ve been in this holding pattern for quite some time
But air traffic control will not pick up the phone
And we’re at a quarter tank of fuel and it seems a bit insane
That we would find ourselves in a jet airliner up in the sky alone
And none of us knows how to land a plane.

it's like a videogame where you're lost inside a maze,
where you keep hearing scratching and growling sounds somewhere nearby
where you're running out of food, and water, and haven't slept in days
and if you stop moving they're gonna catch up to you and you're gonna die
And they say keep one hand on the wall and you’ll find your way out eventually
Every maze has an entrance and an exit, that’s how they’re designed
But I tell you, I can't figure this out, yeah it's got the best of me
I feel like I’ve been down this hall a few hundred times, and I find
I am going round in circles
I am going round in circles
I keep going
I keep hoping
Looking for a door that’s open
I keep going round in circles.

And the next test is supposed to tell us something concrete
That we're gonna lose her soon, or that she's gonna be okay
But the results come back, they're inconclusive, or else they're incomplete
And we know less now than we knew yesterday
So I’m pacing round and round this waiting room
Wearing out a circle in the carpet on the floor
Wearing out my welcome with the nurses at the reception desk, I presume
Wearing out my patience and the soles of my shoes even more
I am going round in circles
I am going round in circles
I keep going
I keep hoping
Looking for a door that’s open
I keep going round in circles

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from Don't Get Too Comfortable (262 songs, vol. 7), released January 2, 2020
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn.
This song is (c) 2019 by Brendan Milburn, my hat music (ASCAP)
administered by WB Music Corp

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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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