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Left In My Life

from Living Inside Design by Mikel Rouse

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LEFT IN MY LIFE

I wouldn’t count on it
I wouldn’t bet on it
I wouldn’t count on it
I wouldn’t bet on it

See, let me talk about me
and a garden degree where you play for a fee
And be what I want you to be
and if the garden variety’s not for me
You’re free (you’re free) , like palm to palm
As if I promise to remain calm
and now the hope’s all gone
Gone-gone and good deal
It’s a lesson of life
And if a lesson is real

It’s so long gone, it’s so long gone
As benefits belong, it’s so long gone

There’s probably still moments
Left in my life
There’s probably still moments
Left in my life

Take breaths and I’m walking in line for a shakedown
If I caught the good life would it be above ground?
Twice dismissed belonging at this time of turning
Breaking bread and baseball caps of higher learning

Forced to press the notion things are really changing
mole hills moving mountains-candid rearranging
Barking at the front door intercepting angels
Out and out redemption resting for a spell

Even as I’m speaking with the right to know
Commonplace occurrence believing where you go

Body at rest insighting overnight guest
Or better, better at last, I mean the last that I checked
I got a rate that I like, I mean I didn’t think twice
And hey, we all gotta eat and by the way it’s my treat
And if you think it’s a con just check the road that I’m on
It’s like, examine and see, or like believing in me
And when belief is suspended for promises made
And what’s left in my life is what’s left in the shade
I’m still waiting to become the man that I made

React to a false decline, born under a neon sign
A commonplace to do, when you fall through

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from Living Inside Design, released February 27, 1994

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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