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Week 40 - Unwritten Rules (231003)

from Song A Week, Vol. 8 by James Tristan Redding

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(written in the lobby of the Brill Building)

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No one tells the sun to shine
Clouds don’t rain on our command
Before blackbirds take the sky
None seek out the word of man

Unwritten rules as old as time itself
Unspoken truth that rings out like a bell
No one owns the ocean blue
Or the love of me and you
Some things we can’t learn in school
Like all the unwritten rules

There’s no keeper at the gate
Of the garden where we grow
How I wish I’d known the brakes
A thousand years ago

Unwritten rules as old as time itself
Unspoken truth that rings out like a bell
No one owns the ocean blue
Or the love of me and you
Some things we can’t learn in school
Like all the unwritten rules

I cannot undo the past
Or rewind the tracks of time
But I never thought to ask
What holds a heart like mine

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from Song A Week, Vol. 8, released February 12, 2024

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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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