Dec. 3, 2019: "Take Me Away," by Matt Halvorson
I recorded this in June but wrote and recorded something else for that week because I wanted to fill this song with harmonies. But this feels like the time for it, so it’s imperfect and barely finished, like so much of the rest of this project.
“Take Me Away”
Take me away from everything I can’t escape!
Take me away from rules that I can’t help but break!
Just take me away from the eyes and the lies of the snakes,
From the harnesses I just can’t break,
From everything I just can’t stand to fake.
Take me away from the constant reminders of fate!
Oh, just take me away from whatever’s infected this place!
Yeah, take me away from everything I just can’t wait for,
From all that I’ve ever been late for,
Take me, oh, take me away
Just take me away from all I might become
Help me escape from what I haven’t done yet
Take me away from all the fears and anxious thoughts that I replay day after day
I don’t know what to say
Until then I’ll stay and grope in the dark till the day
We’ve cleared a path and readied a way true and straight
And knowing we’ll always be chased
That balance is in the equation
It’s the only way
I guess there’s no knowing what to do.
We’re the cutting edge — we just got here, it’s all brand new.
I guess there’s no knowing what to do.
There’s just love and hate and joy and pain and time and in the end, a home for everything.
So, take me away — away from the need to escape.
And take me away from all things but wanting to stay.
Yeah, take me away from a future where everything’s quaking,
From nights where I can’t stop shaking,
From treaties we shouldn’t be breaking,
From taking and taking and taking and taking and taking and taking!
Yeah, take me away from a future where everything’s falling apart!
Yeah, get me away from the feeling that everything’s breaking apart!
Yeah, take me away from the world where I’m not even doing my part!
Yeah, take me away from knowing that everything’s coming apart!
Take me away from feeling like everything’s breaking apart…