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When I first began writing songs years ago, I usually started with a melody, and added words later. These days, I usually write the lyrics first.

But this song started with a chord progression I liked. Then I just started making sounds and words until the lyrics started to form. They began to tell me a story about a person whose lover left them.

I liked the repetitive cycling of the chords and it felt natural to make the lyrics cyclical as well. I tried to do this by allowing one word to fill both the last position in one line as well as the first position in the following line. Or if not the entire word, part of its sound.

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You said I'd never be facing these demons alone
so why am I here on my
only a beauty can break through defenses hard won,
and hold you back up to the

Someday I'll grow up and learn happy endings don't come
just 'cause you've got nothing to
losing you won't make me better, 'cause here I am
waiting on miracles, won't someone give me some
True blue
true blue

My therapist's grinning, 'cause he thinks I'm winning the war
against these illusions that
living inside my head won't bring me back the dead
I'm still stuck here to face each new

Daylight we can't find and anguish we don't mind
will fall thick as wet snow in early December
remember I'm falling and calling
you don't care that I'm full of the last words
you poured on me so I need
True blue
true blue

After the rain falls
after the ash lands
I won't be seen for days
I hope you can understand

I lack for nothing, my crayon box is stuffed to the gills
I'm rolling in riches
is this how the story ends, with us remaining friends
I can't bear to watch that kind of

Show me a way to be sorry I gave you my heart
as little as it turned out to
because I'll take lonely if that is the only way
I can keep memories of when we knew love close to
True blue
true blue
true blue

credits

from Closer to the Sun, released March 14, 2022

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Scott McKinstry Edmonds, Washington

Scott McKinstry is a singer-songwriter living in the Pacific Northwest.

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