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I've Been Ready (early Floating Bridge demo)

from Promises​/​Help Me Tonight by Erik Ritland

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One of the first tracks Floating Bridge ever recorded, it was left on the cutting room floor as their catalog expanded.

One of the 150 songs Erik wrote in the years prior to Floating Bridge, it features a unique chord progression and arrangement, featuring tambourine, organ, and harmonica.

lyrics

Put down your weapons
Look at my scars
Feel my pain it's just a prayer up past the stars
Teach me lessons
Maybe I will learn
Maybe I'll ignore them and get what I deserve

I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along

Put down your weapons
They ain't worth a dime
You cannot kill me if you're only killing time
You've been abandoned
You've run away
You've left me empty and with nothing left to say

I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along

I know how a troubled mind works
I've seen the pain
I've felt the hurt
I know its strengths and its weakness too
So there's nothing left for you to do

Do you need color to brighten up your life?
Or are you happy with the good old black and white?
Do you feel me?
Can you feel at all?
Are you having trouble climbing up that old stone wall?

I don't want no enemy I don't want to start no holy war
What's that you're thinking and what is this fighting for?
You don't see me and yet you drop the bomb
You best surrender 'cuz I have been ready all along

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from Promises​/​Help Me Tonight, released March 1, 2019

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Erik Ritland Saint Paul

One of the last great American songwriters in the tradition of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, William James, G.K. Chesterton, Jeff Tweedy, and Jim Varney.

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