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lyrics
Easy to Get Stuck Here (Byrne)
Our roots keep us strong,
But sometimes they keep us where we don’t belong,
And sometimes we break out in laughter and song at the thought of it all,
And it’s easy to get stuck here.
When folks listen all ears,
To your stories of danger, desperation and tears,
Of a nation that’s always been bursting apart at the seams,
Spilling its kids everywhere.
And heavens above,
There’s a shiver in the sky where the wild geese still fly,
There’s truth and there’s lies and there’s pain and surprises and all,
And it’s easy to get stuck here.
So we talk like they talk,
And the art of losing’s not as hard as we thought,
And a day marred with loneliness is easily fixed and forgot,
It’s so easy to get stuck here.
So you silence the voices,
Their accents more foreign with each passing year,
Occasionally visiting shadows will marvel at all that you’ve done,
For you did it alone.
I sit mixing my thoughts,
And throwing cold water on pie-eyed ideas,
I don’t think my giant of a Grandfather ever left Dublin or was ever abroad,
Maybe he was just stuck there.
The more lofty our goals,
And I’m just like a boxer who pulls every punch that he throws,
Fearless at first then afraid of every hammer that falls,
It’s so easy to get stuck here.
When the hunger won’t go,
And the irony is it was hunger that drove so many to roam,
Through wild farms of ocean we travelled to Liverpool, London, New York,
Only to get stuck here,
Yeah it’s easy to get stuck here,
It’s hard come home.
To survive without love,
Our mannerisms change but our attitudes remain,
The years become a soft blend of acquaintances and friends we can trust,
Who make it easy to get stuck here,
And hard to come home.
With the promise of snow,
Another year comes to an effortless close,
I don’t want these thoughts to stop troubling me I don’t want indifference no,
It’s just easy to get stuck here,
It’s hard to come home,
Yeah It’s just easy to get stuck here,
It’s hard to come home.
On his new record, A Shiver in the Sky (2019),Dublin native John Byrne and his band vibrantly execute ten new originals.
Strings, horns and guitars escort Byrne’s vocals through a set of songs about living and pushing forward through negative times.
Critics have called his writing “powerful, deeply moving work that will stay with you long after you have heard it” (Sing Out)...more
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