Name: Don’t Leave
Duration: P00H04M09S
Description: This was me trying to tell my own story in third person, which was likely patently obvious to anyone who knew me. And, yes, I didn’t have a box spring. Looking at it now, “Don’t Leave” expresses my fear of being forever saddled with the wound of rejection. Thankfully, time has shown me that I am not.

Don’t Leave

from Every Mile by Say ZuZu

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This was me trying to tell my own story in third person, which was likely patently obvious to anyone who knew me. And, yes, I didn’t have a box spring. Looking at it now, “Don’t Leave” expresses my fear of being forever saddled with the wound of rejection. Thankfully, time has shown me that I am not.

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Left home at twenty-two,
Found out that money and dues
Were all he had to pay for being on his own.
Couldn’t afford a box-spring bed,
At night he felt like his dreams all turned up dead,
And all his waiting for a break was all in vain.

Don’t leave me now,
Don’t lead me down,
Don’t ever let me go,
Good god, I’ll be alone,
Don’t leave me in the cold
When my heart’s so full of holes.

Slipped up on the job some days,
Overslept and he’d go in late,
All the while tryin’ to catch a break
And start all over again
His girlfriend had let him go
And all the signs were there to show,
His friends tried to soften the blow
But he denied it all somehow.

All the time he’d had to waste…
All the words he’d left untasted…
All the times he’d tried to break away and run…

Time passed and he found a wife
Who brought hime joy, but still he’d wake some nights
Saying “Don’t go… Don’t go”

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from Every Mile, released July 21, 2023

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