Don't Count Me Out
by Fisher Givens
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Digital Album
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Won't Have Me
04:30
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The lake this misty morning seems like it's been waiting, waiting for a thousand years
To have this conversation with a boy whose heart is broken
And heavy with a thousand cares
We were the ones no one would have thought
We were solid like the rocks beneath my feet
We were the ones who'd grow old on the front porch
Telling jokes and drinking sweet tea
But sometimes the girl of your dreams runs off with a fool
Rolls in the mud and is gone like the mist
She may fall to the earth like a drop of clean rain
She may run to the sea but she won't have me
I stumbled on a moment that seems to be so pregnant, like anything could happen here
Like I could meet an angel or fall into the darkness
Or be swallowed by this beauty and just disappear
Love is a beauty such as this, she draws you in and scares you to death
Like a stallion to wild for anyone to ride but the lucky ones will still feel her breath
Sometimes the girl of your dreams recedes like a wave
You give everything but you just can't save her
When the season has changed she may surface again
Like a drop in the sea, but she won't have me
And I know if this moment of clarity yields to the pain
Just like the mist always yields to the day
I may have been cut but not carved or contained
You just gave me the furrows to drink in the rain
I may walk with a limp but I'm gonna walk free
And this won't own me, no this won't own me
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Glint In Our Eyes
04:40
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Jimmy and me, best friends since we were three
Played cops and robbers, patients and doctors, thicker than thieves
My daddy told me that people like those gotta earn their way
His daddy said "don't miss your shot, son, 'cause some boys are born on third base"
Then they kissed us goodnight, with a glint in their eyes
Well we grew up just fine. Jimmy went to work in the mines
I went to college in Tulsa and came home to take what was mine
I dug for gold in the pockets of soldiers' and farmers' sons
And he dug for coal and came home with nothing but cancer in his lungs
Try as we might, we couldn't find our way back to the light
Well I remember that day - I was sitting in my office at the bank
When Jimmy walked in and flashed me a grin I'd never seen on his face
Shotgun in hand he said "it's time to pay up little man
I'm here as a robber, a cop, and a doctor and a patient, my friend
This is the end - our reckoning"
Then he emptied the vault and left his gun out on the walk
I heard the feds took him down in a barn just outside Wichita
And I made a show for the cameras - thanked God and the FDIC
But why does it feel like there were two souls, not one, who just almost got free
Of the glint in our eyes and the cancer inside
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Alki Beach
05:23
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When they found her she was not the same
No one spoke of the marks on her shoulders
We knew each other by a common shame
That we could not name til we were older
And drowning, drowning
Will this thing ever work again?
We spent the winter up on Alki beach
And the frost came sooner than expected
Try to remember singing on New Years Eve
I tried to call but your phone was disconnected
Come find me, find me
If this can ever work again
Will this thing ever work again?
We have seen silver waves crash on Malin Head
We have run with the wolves out beyond the hedge
So don't count me out babe
Don't count me out babe
Dress me up like a dog in a collar
Take my youth and my truth and my dollars
But don't count me out babe
Don't count us out babe
Let the cold wind blow upon your face
We have come home from further places
Don't count me out babe
Don't count me out babe
They took so much of you
They took so much of me
But don't count us out babe
Don't count me out
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credits
released January 27, 2021
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about
Fisher Givens Seattle, Washington
Seattle songwriter channeling Ireland and Arkansas; trying to make something beautiful.
discography
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Jan 2021 -
Oct 2017 -
Mar 2012