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They boxed me in for fifty-four years
For mistakes I’ve made in my younger days
Days that seem as real to me
As the monsters in some other man’s dream
And when I look back on way back when
I try to touch the moment where time stood still

The world spun on without me
For the better half of a century
Just a stone sitting in midstream
Watching the water slip past me
And now and then, they’d send a new kid in
And I’d see my younger self
In those naïve eyes

Take a baby bird from the nest
And keep him in a baby cage
He grows up knowing nothing
But the steel that keeps the world away
And then one day the bars fell away
And at seventy-five I was free
To fly alone

My first hour out was longer than
The first hour I spent in my cage
‘Cause all I had to do back then
Was scare off fear and stay awake
But on my own the world came on fast
And I felt like I was drowning
In neon lights

So who’s to say what freedom is—
Maybe it ain’t real at all
I say it’s a boy gone bad
It’s a monster in my dreams
And I don’t know if I’ll sleep tonight
Because my bed’s too soft
And there’s too much space
In this room

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from Broken Hearts & Bitter Ends, track released January 1, 2004

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Shandy Lawson New Haven, Connecticut

Formerly of Los Angeles, Tampa, and NYC, Shandy is a New Haven, CT-based performing songwriter. But really, he'll play pretty much anywhere.

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