Chances To Be

from Abolition by Beautiful Losers

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We all have chances. Do we take them? This is basically a stream of consciousness rant about that.

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All I had for you was another change of mood.
Unfinished stories about how life can be good.
I had so many chances to be.

Hope springs eternal, but Hope can’t find her keys.
Sorting through this mess has brought me to my knees.
I had so many chances to be.

I can be a priest if you want that from me.
I can be a bird of prey up in your tree.
I had so many chances to be.

Take down this note but don’t post it on your page.
Just file it in your heart where no one else can engage.
I had so many chances to be.

I have not broken all of those windows out of spite.
It was art, my darling – a performance for the contrite.
I had so many chances to be.

I am not a tailor, nor am I a saint.
I cannot build great monuments to embellish your estate.
I had so many chances to be.

Who will listen to my pleading if you are asleep?
All of my shallowness; my mind so incomplete.
I had so many chances to be.

Humour me one time, and then just let me be.
Hope says she’ll wait for me, if she can find her keys.
I had so many chances to be.

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from Abolition, released March 8, 2021

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Greg Dear's debut solo album in 1981 featured members of the Triffids and other Perth bands. Across the 80s and 90s he released singles and albums both solo and with his bands (Holy Rollers, Beautiful Losers, and Butterfly Collection), and produced records by other Perth bands. For the Beautiful Losers' recent albums (2014 on), visit: beautifullosers.bandcamp.com ... more

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