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This is the eighteenth 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/_Q-Ncuhc5BE - and if you want to help me keep doing this, throw me a buck a week at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/BrendanMilburn

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Well, it's been tough these past few weeks
not to feel like this whole world
is headed for a big hot messy apocalypse
'cause whenever that orange fella speaks,
his freak flag flies unfurled,
with a flapping image of a turd sandwich sprinkled with chocolate chips

and it's hard to keep your head up on days like this
and it's easy to be fed up on days like this
with a creeping sense of dread up on days like this, oh yes

but every now and then
a miraculous event
will come along and restore your faith in humanity
yeah every now and then,
that straight path doesn't looks so bent,
and the act of getting out of bed doesn't feel so much like insanity
'cause every now and then
even a die-hard pessimist
can be forced, perhaps at gunpoint, to confess
that every now and then
every now and then
things suck less.

well it sucks when you feel cold
and it sucks when you feel wet
and feeling cold and wet simultaneously sucks more.
when you put your life on hold
to face the very real threat
that your water and your ancestral burial grounds might be sacrificed to fuel some trucks more.

when you're sprayed with freezing water on days like this
protesting lambs to the slaughter on days like this
feeling like you're cannon fodder on days like this, oh yes

but every now and then
the army corps of engineers
up and decides to do the right thing and show some Christian charity
yes, every now and then,
all the months and all the tears
lead up to the outcome that'll go down in posterity
as an "every now and then" kinda
beautiful Frank Capra moment, in a year when everything else was just a mess,
yeah, every now and then
every now and then
things suck less.

but don't you worry, all this progress could slip right back down hill
and ultimately, one way or another, it probably will
but the price of democracy is eternal vigilance,
and I don't know about you, but I'm super-vigilant since
this election went so wretchedly and made me vomit and wince
and I'm missing Leonard Cohen, David Bowie and Prince
but every now and then, toward the end of the year, something sets our hearts at ease
so for now, let's celebrate the sweetness of life's rare victories.

and every once in literally ever,
a group of hundreds of American vets
will kneel in front of native american elders and ask for forgiveness
and what seemed like a hopeless endeavor
that could only lead to regrets
turns out so freaking amazing that I just can't quite believe this.
yeah, every now and then
this extremely cynical songwriter
who's been sure that we're hanging ourselves with our own American rope
yeah, every now and then
every now and then
I find
there's still hope.

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from brendan & the over​-​extended circumstances (262 songs, volume 2), track released December 7, 2016
amazing winter photo by Rab Ritchie, from Unsplash. Thank you.
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn.
copyright (c) 2016 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 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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