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The Triumph and Tragedy of Being On Your Own

from Gives a Damn by Loyal Frisby

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Yeah, I know that in the proper rules of titling, the word "on" shouldn't be capitalized, but in this case, it just should, y'all, it just should. Also, you should know that when I first wrote this song, I was a student at the University of Florida, and I made a shirt (I did that alot, actually. Why don't I do that anymore?) The shirt was a white tshirt, written on in white paint that read:
I
Sit
Alone

I went to a little restaurant on campus in the Reitz Union and there was a friend of mine that worked there and when I got up to the restaurant, she saw me, saw my shirt and goes "I presume you're sitting by yourself today?" Was that you, Marthe Walters?

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Life has a lesson, I'm sure of it now. I'm sure that I haven't learned it. I know that I don't know how. And these eyes aren't crying, for the lack of tears. I have a knack for fear and it gets me a bit less than realized, and a big way for saying that I don't know. I don't know.

Life has a lesson, and it breaks my back on some days. And it leaves my mouth wide open to crave every drop of rain that the sky would bless on this summer's day and I would turn, I'd turn, I'd turn until everything fades to the same green. I'd kiss you and I'd know why. Not for a habitual want, but for a real drive in my life.

Here it is, almost my birthday again and you can take each candle and divide them among my friends that I've lost for being whoever it is that I am. "You are the nicest guy." "And your smile as sweet as a sugary pie." "And your heart is so warm." "But my road can't take the way you travel." ...And so my arms are empty and my head is filled. With "I don't know".

I sit alone. I sit alone. I sit alone. I sit alone. I sit alone. I sit alone.

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from Gives a Damn, released March 3, 2000

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