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Renew

from adolescence by Scott Lemoine

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It’s not so easy to know what you need
To carry a cross
When you don’t have a creed
That you know line by line
Word by word you’ll concede
Become strange to yourself
Start to bleed

From the holes in your hands
Where the blood runs like sands
Counting failures your fingers can’t hold
Turn it upside down

And begin to forgive
Finding stories to live
Every pretty untrue
Make believe all undo
Take a breath hold it in
Now release every sin
See yourself as yourself
All yourself renew

I can’t pretend though you beg and you plead
That everything’s fine
It’s no more than misleading
Yourself bit by bit
Piece by piece you’ll succeed
Become scared of yourself
Start to bleed

From the holes in your hands
Where the blood runs like sands
Counting failures your fingers can’t hold
Turn it upside down

And begin to forgive
Finding stories to live
Every pretty untrue
Make believe all undo
Take a breath hold it in
Now release every sin
See yourself as yourself
All yourself renew

Life’s not an hourglass funnelling seeds
You can choose to break open
To burn all the weeds
That you’d rather forget
Than to string up as beads
Become safe with yourself
Will you bleed?

If you’ll show me the scars
Fixed on skin like the stars
All aligned into histories to tell
I won’t turn around
I won’t let you down

Begin to forgive
Finding stories to live
Every pretty untrue
Make believe all undo
Take a breath hold it in
Now release every sin
See yourself as yourself
All yourself renew

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from adolescence, released September 30, 2014

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Scott Lemoine Ottawa, Ontario

Scott wishes the world was a bit more like a musical. With that in mind, he regularly sings to himself in public.

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