Linger

from The Excitable Gift by Stellan Wahlstrom Drift Band

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Sitting in a hotel bar
Of former grandness and I know it well
Piano from another room
Drinking killer coffee reading Lawrence Durrell

From the bar a Calvados
Reminding me of us
At another place but no drama here
So I will just linger on

The dread of being first to cause pain
Has kept us faithful so long
Fear of guilt will stay with you
After the rest is gone

It's hard to say no it's hard to not pursue
When once no one bothered to look back at you
Always needing to know how far it can go
It feels like I'm betraying my own flesh and blood

But no I didn't it was enough
Just knowing it could have been done
The step's too step to take but still
I couldn't help but linger on

I will find my own guilt thanks
If you lay it on me I will shrug it off
Rather being left alone
Than always being not quite enough

Now I can taste
The nostalgic anticipation of change
I could start anew but try harder too
I punish myself I linger on

It's hard to say no it's hard to not pursue
When once no one bothered to look back at you
Always needing to know how far it can go
It feels like I'm betraying my own flesh and blood

Here comes the night the evening crowd
The piano plays a faster song
They're dimming the lights but I'm not staying here
Still, still, still
I linger on

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from The Excitable Gift, released January 25, 2009

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Stellan Wahlstrom Drift Band Stockholm, Sweden

Modern big-city folk rock from Swedish singer-songwriter Stellan Wahlström, fomerly a member ot The Wylde Mammoths (Crypt Records).

The new album "As real as in a dream" is now released!

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