Name: Still Alive
Duration: P00H03M31S
Description: This song is the epitome of a "story-based" song. It takes you to a place that's cold, dark, and lonely. The poor soul wants to be dead so he can be with his lost daughter and wife, but it's just not his time to go!

Still Alive

by Bill King

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This song is the epitome of a "story-based" song. It takes you to a place that's cold, dark, and lonely. The poor soul wants to be dead so he can be with his lost daughter and wife, but it's just not his time to go!

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Still Alive

Well, I finally painted over the crayon marks behind her bedroom door,
had a weekend on my hands; just couldn’t put it off no more,
a little “stick-figure” family she drew in secrecy when she was five,
back when the world was right and you and her, were still alive…

Oh I curse the day, I curse the night, I curse that drunken sob who stole away your lifes.
I try and smile and keep on keeping on,
but it don’t much feel like living since the two of you've been gone.
I beg the Lord, “Please take me!”
and wind up cussing him out loud in spite,
and I wake up every morning, still alive.

Oh, I’d have given anything could it have been me,
we could have chalked it up to just what I deserve.
There she was in all her innocence, and you were squeezing my hand, when that moment came and we rounded that curve…

Oh, I curse the day, I curse the night, I curse myself for being careless, I can never make it right.
I try and smile and keep on keeping on,
but it don’t much feel like living since the two of you've been gone.
I beg the Lord, “Please take me!”
and wind up cussing him out loud in spite,
and I wake up every morning, still alive.

Oh, I wake up every morning, still alive.
I’m still alive.

Copyright: Bill King/Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP)
2007
150 W Thompson Lane, D101
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
E-mail: w.king150@comcast.net

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released March 23, 2007
Writer (lyrics/music) - Bill King/Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP).
Performer (singer/musician) - Bill King
Producer - Bill King/Hattie Mae Music (ASCAP).

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