Half Life from Idle Hands by Seth Timbs

Half Life

don’t act like half of your life is over
and the other half can never begin
in the morning light you’re sober
and making amends 

but in the dark of night there’s a white hot light
shinning on an empty stage
it’s making you feel like a songbird 
in an open cage.

and you could fly away like all those other songs say
just fly away, fly away
yeah you could make your break, make your daring escape
right away, right away.

but you think half of your life belongs to 
forces that you don’t understand
ushered around by the touch of invisible hands

Out in the light you’re blinded
and flatted by the crush of the crowd
It’s making you long for quiet 
in the midst of the loud. 

and you might get your way one of these long and lonely days
you’ll fly away, just fly away.
and you might catch a break even if its by mistake
you’ll take it anyway….and fly away…

(solo/instrumental break)

You know you can’t escape it
you’re not the exception
you know the sun sets on us all
There’s no need to explain it
all your deeper understanding
will not change a bit of what’s to come
and you can’t fly away….

• Rock
• beatlesque
• indie
• piano rock
• pop
• singer-songwriter
• Nashville