Ready to Die

from Lost & Found in America by Matt Byrde

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There's been a silent street,
An abandoned factory,
A river and a walking trail
Outside my house for five straight years
Fifty miles difference
Ain't no goddamn different
It's the same old plaintive scene
And it could be said,
Just shame on me
Five years difference
Ain't goddamn different to me

Every winter for fifteen years I'd say
"That's it, I've had it now,"
"I'm moving west or south or anywhere but north"
North oh north I went,
And north, oh north I'll stay

Eleven and nine tenths percent
Of people in this country will leave
My brother said
Most people die within about sixty miles
Of where they learned to walk and love and drink and cry
I'm not ready to die
I'm not ready to die

Every winter for fifteen years I'd say
"That's it, I've had it now,"
"I'm moving west or south or anywhere but north"
North oh north I went,
And north, oh north I'll stay

Life takes time

Every winter for fifteen years I'd say
"That's it, I've had it now,"
"I'm moving west or south or anywhere but north"
North oh north I went,
And north, oh north I'll stay

credits

from Lost & Found in America, released August 24, 2016
Performed and recorded by Matt Byrde
Matt Byrde is: Bill Anderson, Austin Hatch, Dan Inglis, Steve Jonker, Taylor Thompson, Evan White
Engineered by: Garrett Sawyer, Steve Jonker
Produced by: Garrett Sawyer, Steve Jonker, Austin Hatch
Copyright Austin Hatch 2016
Recorded at Northfire Recording Studio & Shumoto Soundroom, March 2015 - April 2016

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Neither all that bad nor all that good, Matt Byrde is a band. Matt Byrde is big in Japan.

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Can't Run

May 2019
January

Jul 2017
Lost & Found in America

Aug 2016
Rest

Jul 2016
Bruce

Jan 2016

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