Name: Week 15 - Dust In A Beam Of Light (220408)
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Description: Co-written with Adam Howard Schneider

Week 15 - Dust In A Beam Of Light (220408)

from Song A Week, Volume 7 by James Tristan Redding

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Co-written with Adam Howard Schneider

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Boxes in the attic been there for years
Filled up with t-shirts and memories and tears
Stack of papers and a couple busted chairs
I could cry anywhere so why not there
Don't matter who's wrong don't matter who's right
All that matters is this dust in a beam of light

Noise out in the world is deafening
Try to listen but I can't hear a thing
Were there words I coulda' said to make you stay
Anything so you'd still be here today
Well the door is locked and the only thing inside
Is me and some dust in a beam of light

Someday I'll make my way far away from here
Try to make all these ghosts disappear
No more strands of blonde when I vaccuum the floor
No more holdin' on if that's what I'm holdin' on for

Tax returns and phone bills we never paid
Books I didn't read but couldn't throw away
Dreams about a life that I'll never have
Wanna' see the future just look at the past
Focus on the one thing shining bright
A cloud of dust in a beam of light

Only thing that's real right before my eyes
Is just some dust in a beam of light

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from Song A Week, Volume 7, released February 12, 2023

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

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