OTHER FATES 

Written in April 2011, as I got close to graduating college.  This song was finished on a 5 day backpacking trip reliving a trip my dad took when he was a student at Colorado College in Death Hollow, Utah.

As the end approaches we breath our fear like the air,
turn wine into water we don’t care, we don’t care
And it’s overcast in paradise we say we wouldn’t mind
leaving paradise behind and it’s not here… and I don’t care

And I won’t cry but I need these tears
It’s too hard for me to see out of here
And new doors will open so I’m hopin’ that I don’t turn them down

The quiet mind that comes with time, the known places
comfortable spaces won’t be mine, when I return it won’t be home I find
And I do not doubt that I can make new connections other fates
But there wasn’t so much weight to my mistakes here… I was safe

And I won’t cry but I need these tears
It’s too hard for me to see out of here
And new doors will open so I’m hopin’ that I don’t turn them down

We hurry up the end, picking fights that we can’t win
Still we dig our heels in we want to stay there, while declaring, “get me away from here”
And it’s overcast in paradise we say we wouldn’t mind
leaving paradise behind and it’s not here… and I don’t care

copywrite Lauren Foster