Trying To Find Me (Arthur Alligood cover w/ lyrics)

  
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This is a cover of an Arthur Alligood song. He sings a lot better than I sing.

7.11.06

Trying to find me

I used to hope in Friday from Monday’s desert sand

Like a slave caught in Egypt longing for a better land

The weekend was my water, just the thought of being free

from my every inclination to be everyone, but me

I started wearing t-shirts I got from Goodwill

on that long, back stretch of my senior year

I was new wine they were my new wineskins

but looking back I see I still had yet to ferment

Pushing through every door, turning corners

trying to find me

Leaving home, leaving all on my shoulders

at my feet

Was it a fire or an ocean that was raging down deep?

Its hard to say…to put into words for a song that I can sing

I tossed my cap and the next day I was driving in my car

to North Carolina, to my summer job

They said I had the worst group and at first I agreed

Till days became weeks and my eyes began to see

These were boys not men and all they wanted was love

and I was just like them in need of a hug

Passing on never slowing are those tiny grains of sand

I can turn the glass over, but never stop the second hand

Moments turn to memories and memories fade, too fast

but some they stick around till you breathe your last