Overcome

from ABUELA.MADRE.AMANTE by Dan Peters

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This isn't mine. It's my friend Cats. We all love our mums, but some of us have to go through the terrible ordeal of losing them. This song is about her feelings when her mum was taken away. I did an acoustic arrangement of it a while ago and it gives me all the feels everytime I play it. I hope to god I do it justice everytime I play it and because I love Cat so much I hope the emotion fills out where I can't hope to empathise with the source material.

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I was in a bar in Boston when I realised my youth had slipped away.
24 years old, I never wrote, hardly ever called.

And as the barman took my empty glass away,
I knew that it was time to do and not just say.
And all my real friends know that that was it for me as I got up to go.

Grief is the price we pay for love
When you care so much that the feeling fills you up
And when that's stolen you're left numb
That's all that's left for me and I am overcome.

Is this the price we pay
Is this the price we pay
Is this the price we pay
For love, for love.

Now when I walk I don't know where I come from
And when I talk I sneer all of my lines
And I just feel, I don't have time
Every moment left for me I've got to make it mine.

Grief is the price we pay for love
When you care so much that the feeling fills you up
And when that's stolen you're left numb
There's nothing left for me and I am overcome

Is this the price we pay
Is this the price we pay
Is this the price we pay
For love, for love.

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from ABUELA.MADRE.AMANTE, released August 15, 2015

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Dan Peters London, UK

Frontman of RxR . Doing that thing where people who are "punk" play acoustic music and still insist they're punk. Like I need any more Frank Turner parallels!!

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