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She wears her wedding veil and says her eyes have seen the glory
Tears apart her family photos, says they're someone else's story
You can stare down any street here and see straight into her past
Would you rather miss your next chance, or your next chance be your last?
While the kids are in the graveyard playing hopscotch on the headstones
'Cause their mother says she's tired, needs some time to be alone
There's a stranger waiting at the gate who won't say where he's from
Only says he's on his way to kingdom come
Would you wait another year?
There's too much to finish here
Would you wait another year?



She'll be your friend if you pretend her dreams are perfect plans
And you laugh at jokes that neither of you even understand
'Cause fate and flattery go hand-in-hand and stand in equal portion
Blessed be the ones who fail to fathom your fine fortune
When loneliness cracks open and each shadow has a voice
You'll do anything for silence; what it takes won't be your choice
The kids have found a different game to play, they're beating on the drum
In the rhythm of the march to kingdom come
Would you wait another year?
There's too much to finish here
Would you wait another year?

There's no fighting for your life or what you've lost or what you've learned
If you leave here, you will hear the echo of your own return
Like a nightingale whose vengeful voice goes silent on the high notes
Moses marching forty years but blindly winding up in Cairo
The door dares you to do it, but it don't say where to go
The walls, they whisper something different in a language you don't know
How many times I tried to warn you not to do what I had done
'Cause she knows which roads to close to kingdom come
Would you wait another year?
There's too much to finish here
Would you wait another year?

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from You Won't Even Know I'm Gone, released November 18, 2016
Ian Fitzgerald - acoustic guitar, vocal
Dylan Sevey - drums
Jesse Emmanuel Smith - electric guitar, vocal
Seamus Weeden - electric guitar, vocal
Ollie Williams - electric bass

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Ian Fitzgerald Providence, Rhode Island

Though perhaps technically a singer-songwriter, Ian Fitzgerald prefers the term 'folk singer,' as it more accurately describes the tradition in which his music is rooted. From early twentieth century field recordings through Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, and hundreds of artists in between, Ian has been influenced by one of the sturdiest strains of American music. ... more

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