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This is a song called Err. This song is immensely important to me. I wrote it all the way back sometime around December 2015 / January 2016 in the middle of immense loneliness and depression. It has laid a bit of a template for everything I have written since. This song, albeit it was only an instrumental at the time, became a beacon of light in the back of my mind through nearly every hardship I have endured since, because through everything I would be able to think of it, and re-visit it and feel the power it displays. The song speaks on forgiveness. Of inner strength and rising out of prior hardship. Expressing to your doubters that they are wrong and that you are great, but that you won’t hold on to hatred or grudges or anything like that. It is the most fully realized and deliberately inspiring song I’ve written, and I finally found myself able to deliver on singing over it in recent months.

lyrics

[Lyrics]
You used to make me feel so incompetent
Like anything I did was never enough
But now that I've had some time away from you
I know now that that was just your bluff

And you made me feel like my thoughts didn't matter
But I am so much more than you'll ever know
I will make your expectations shatter
And I will exponentially grow

And I forgive you
It's all in the past now
I forgive you
We've got to move past somehow

Let's leave this place together
We've a new headspace to live in forever
Let's leave this place and never return to this graceless endeavor
Together, forever

To err is to be human
Making mistakes is part of being alive
Nobody is here on purpose
And you're no less important than I / And for too long you've shouldered our strife / So let's try to keep our burdens light

Make Careful Use Of Your Time
We Are Leaving This Place Behind

You are absolved
Steel your resolve
It's time to move on

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP

(I thought I told you to wake up)

AND WE'LL KILL DESPAIR TONIGHT
AND DAWN IS WHAT WE WILL FIND
SKY LIFT US UP WITH ALL OF YOUR MIGHT
SEA RISE AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FIGHT

AND RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED
RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED

AND WE'LL KILL DESPAIR TONIGHT
AND DAWN IS WHAT WE WILL FIND
SKY LIFT US UP WITH ALL OF YOUR MIGHT
SEA RISE AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FIGHT

AND RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED
RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED

AND WE'LL KILL DESPAIR TONIGHT
AND DAWN IS WHAT WE WILL FIND
SKY LIFT US UP WITH ALL OF YOUR MIGHT
SEA RISE AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FIGHT

AND RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED
RESOLVE THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERMINED
RESTORE THE HEARTS OF THE VILIFIED

credits

released May 12, 2019
Written, Arranged & Performed by Nate-Wendell Newby
Vocals recorded in my basement in March & May 2019
Art by Nate-Wendell Newby, with assistance from Shaun Mcdonald

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