Name: Stand in the Stiffer Wind
Duration: P00H03M46S
Description: Written in December 2010, this track was recorded by the internal microphone on my computer while abroad in Buenos Aires.

Stand in the Stiffer Wind

from Loose Leaf by Lauren Foster

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Written in December 2010, this track was recorded by the internal microphone on my computer while abroad in Buenos Aires.

lyrics

Bent steel and cold hands
Empty rooms in a foreign land
Wooden chords and my empty words
4/4 time and perfect rhymes

Outside, the world is new to
My eyes, but the sun is still the same
And find me I’m lost between the ties
To the people and the places their homes and their lives

And I’ll go 6, 5, 4, 1
Like the songs you’ve heard before, it’s music that’s been done
I need to feel ready for a new place
So I’ll play it in the old way, and sing you this song for my home

Some times remain
Deep breaths, but I still feel the same
It’s hard to hold this whole world within your heart
To stand in the stiffer wind, and not refuse to play a part

Few words and strong ties
Maybe easier when we’re soon to say goodbye
Desperately created and so quickly left behind
Like the colors of the evening, are so bright and then they die

And so it goes, and here I am
Try to take it by the moment, try to make it what I can
And I don’t think that I’m coming home enlightened
And I’ve found I’m not so different, but I don’t think that means I wasn’t changed

So I’ll sing 6, 5, 4, 1
Like the songs you’ve heard before, it’s music that’s been done
I need to feel ready for a new place
So I’ll play it in the old way, and sing you this song, yeah I’ll sing you this song for my home

credits

from Loose Leaf, released December 5, 2012

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Lauren Foster Boulder, Colorado

Lauren is currently based out of Boulder, CO. In addition to playing music she makes time for playing ultimate frisbee, getting outside with a pack, skis, crampons, or just a light jacket, and waitressing at a local brewery.

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