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Leadoff track from the 2008 album Floating Bridge. Re-issue coming on September 18, 2020!

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I should have warned you that I wasn't what you wanted
I should have told you from the start
When I look at you all I see is a target
An actor cast in the wrong part

I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again

I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind

I never asked to get so personal with you
I didn't think it out too well
We were drifters in a world standing still
Peddlers with nothing to sell

I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again

I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind

In the end there's nothing I can say or do
That hasn't been done or said
I am not the person I once thought I knew
I'm a fantasy instead

I'm an accident that's happened
And I'm happening again

I wish I could fall asleep with the promises I keep
'Cuz I like sleeping alone
I probably shouldn't talk so much
I probably shouldn't tell you what
Has been on my mind

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

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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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