Stop

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When I’m aching with a pain I hesitate to say out loud (R)
When I’m making things worse with every word out of my mouth (C)
When conviction turns to stubbornness and I can’t give any ground (R)
When I can feel uncertainty curdle into doubt (C)

I need to stop for a minute and look at you
I need to stop when I’m spinnin’, ‘cause it does us no good
When the panic feels permanent
Only you can reel me in
I need to stop for a minute

Every failure is pressed between the pages of my mind(C)
Remember that love is not a ledger reconciled (R)
It’s a red thread through a piece of lace; It’s the grace that we allow (Both)
I know it when I see it and I’m seein’ it right now (Both)

Each time I stop for a minute and look at you
I need to stop when I’m spinnin’, ‘cause it does us no good
When the panic feels permanent
Only you can reel me in
I need to stop for a minute

Gotta stop it when I’m feeling so neurotic.
Self-defeating. Gotta listen to my heart and its incessant beating (x2)
Stop. Just stop.

I need to stop for a minute and look at you
I need to stop when I’m spinnin’, ‘cause it does us no good
When the panic feels permanent
Only you can reel me in
I need to stop for a minute

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from Spruce Island, released December 2, 2022

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