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This Awful Thing (In Memory Of Brett Layne)

from Hesitation Cuts by Get Set Go

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It was the longest wait that Mister Layne E, G#m, F#m, A 2x (into)
Had ever sat through. E, G#m, F#m, B 2x
A, B, E,
Waiting there on the doctor's word A, F#m, E
What could he do? (chorus)
C#m, G#m 3x
Something was wrong inside of his head push to B (2x whole thing)
Something quite bad, he knew, resolve on A
It was the longest wait that he had waited through. Bridge
A, G#m, B, C#m, Ebdim, E, B, C#m
There's nothing that we can do, A, E, B, C#m
The doctor explained resolve on E
There's no malignant growth, there's no cancer there
Your neural pathways are frayed
The wires that connect your head to your body
Well, they're gonna decay
Your gonna die soon,
I'm sorry, Mister Layne.

"Are you kidding me?
How could this even be?
I've got so much life
So much life in me.

You say I'm gonna die
But How could that be right
I know I'm filled with life,
So much life in me.

How could this possibly...?
How could this awful thing
How could it possibly be?

So Mister Layne climbed in his car
And started to drive
He wandered to and fro,
He never slowed as he was putting on miles.
Hour to hour, he drove around
In a fog of his own disquiet
Here he was, on the open road
alive

So let's fast forward, some many weeks
And he is struggling to simply speak
And his muscles twitch quite constantly
Which is exhausting, he's so damn tired.

And every week there's some new thing
That he just can't do, and every week
There's some new insult, some little loss
Some price not yet paid, some unthought cost.

Written By: Mike TV

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from Hesitation Cuts, released December 17, 2019

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