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This Is When You Let Go (first demo version)

from making an omelet (262 songs, volume 1) by Brendan Milburn

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Here's the first, rough, just-finished-the-lyrics-and-the-bridge version of "This Is When You Let Go." The basement of these nice people's home in West Seattle, with a crappy handheld mic I bought for $25 from a store in Capitol Hill. Very much bonus track material here, but there's something about this that I like.

lyrics

it's like a weight upon your shoulders
it's like a boat that you are towing from the shore
it's like you're always, always pushing up that boulder
'til it rolls right over you and you gotta push it up once more
it's like a swim against the current
it's a night so dark you forget that there will ever be a dawn
that night you realize you can't go on like you've been
going on and on and on and on and on and on,

this is when you let go
when you let go of your doubt,
when you stop your second-guessing,
when you stop chickening out.
and there's no shame
for the dumb mistakes that laid you low
when you can put down all the weight that you've been carrying,
that's when you know:
this is when you let go.

it's like a pretentious foreign movie
in some pretentious movie house you'd rather not be in
the popcorn's stale and the soda fountain's broken
and the action film next door is loud, the walls are paper thin
The hero looks suspiciously familiar
That dissolute and disenchanted douchebag on the screen
And then you realize the other actors are your friends and neighbors and you better get up there and fix this before the final scene

this is when you let go
when you let go of your fear
when you let go of the bottle
and you can see it all so clear
that you have become
your own worst-case scenario
when you can put away the crutches you've been leaning on,
that's when you know
this is when you let go

this is when you let go
when you set your expectations free
when you let go of the person you thought you were s'posed to be
and you're not afraid
of whatever's down below,
when you're dangling from the high trapeze in the circus tent,
it's just part of the show,
where you swing to and fro,
when the time comes you'll know:
this is when you let go.

credits

from making an omelet (262 songs, volume 1), released November 23, 2016
all singing and instrumenting and producering by Brendan Milburn
The song is copyright (c) 2016 by Brendan Milburn, published 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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