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This is the nineteenth 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/049W8ZkbY2M - 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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You are not what I expected
and I doubt I'm what you dreamed of every night
but I was wrong for so damn long, and today I stand corrected
'cause I look at you, and I know I got one thing right.
I never planned to start again, though.
And I know you didn't plan to take this ride,
but when I met you the plans I made flew right on out the window
of the jail cell I had locked myself inside.

'cause you unlocked me
yeah, you set me free.
you unlocked me
when I had thrown away the key.
When I couldn't take it anymore,
when I had given up the fight,
then you opened up the door
and you let in all the light
you unlocked me
when I was locked away and so far down
you unblocked me
and made me decide
that I wanna stick around.

I spent the first half of my life being so damn certain
of what was right or wrong,
and what was false or true
I'm staring down the other side of my existence
coming to grips with how I don't know anything in this whole world
except that I love dogs
and playing with my kids
and making songs
and you.

you're the last thing I imagined
and you didn't picture me for wedded bliss.
how miraculous it is, then, to look back on life's rich pageant
and see how it all led right on up to this.

'cause you unlocked me
yeah, you set me free.
you unlocked me
when I had thrown away the key.
when I had given up the ghost,
when I was slipping down the drain,
when I needed you the most
you came right out of the rain,
and you unlocked me,
when I was already five or six feet underground.
You got the defibrillators and shocked me
Saw my empty shelves and you restocked me
Played me some beastie boys and then you rocked me
deflated my balloon of self-importance and playfully mocked me
I'm tryin' to tell you, you have unlocked me
and made me decide
that I wanna stick around.

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from brendan & the over​-​extended circumstances (262 songs, volume 2), track released December 23, 2016
locked door photo by Todd Cravens, from Unsplash.
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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