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To Begin Again

from Hungry & Sober by The Bootstrap Boys

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“To Begin Again is a song to a deceased friend surrounded by descriptions of dealing with change, good or bad, as both are stressors. It’s about death and loss and realization and renewal and reinvention and rebirth” - Big Jake Bootstrap

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To begin again
Something must end
That’s everything then
No time to mend
Yesterday’s trend
Goodbye my friend

To begin again
First steps must be taken
Like bread needs breakin
The yard needs rakin
Love needs makin
Beliefs get shaken

Don’t blow your heart up shooting cocaine
Find yourself surfin’ round the astral plane
One heroic dose over the threshold
Ya ain’t no stoic if ya let yourself unfold
1 I, 2 I, 3 I’ll go
I’ve been around but ain’t no cotton-eyed Joe

To begin again
Blurred vision clearing
A road not veering
No end nearing
All terms endearing
And no judgment leering

To begin again
Old nightmares mastered
Awaken faster, have no disasters
In verdant pastures
Of Sweet Williams and Asters
To begin again
To begin again
To begin again and again and again

credits

from Hungry & Sober, track released April 28, 2023
All Songs written by Jake Stilson (BMI)
All Songs performed by The Bootstrap Boys: Jake Stilson (guitar, vox), Nicholas Alexander (guitar, lap steel), Jonathan Bruha (bass), and Jeffrey Knol (drums).
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at yellow DOG Studios, Wimberley, Texas, USA. Produced by David Percefull. Engineered by Casey Johns and David Percefull. Assisted by Collin Tucker. Mastered by Adam J. Odor
Artwork by Goldie J. Stilson (Li’l Mama Bootstrap)

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