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I wrote this song in the wake of a series of great losses. When it happens you try to get your head around it, never can. It's incomprehensible to the dream we're in but like Buddy Holly sang, "love is loving and not fade away."This was cut live all at once, just James and I in the studio with me singing and strumming and playing harmonica through a neck rack.

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Passersby

They say when you leave a place you don't ever really go...
That memories can be retraced back to the times you've
known...
I'm sorry if this little offering today feels lame....
The truth is when you do go back both you and that place
have changed...

They say when a person leaves they don't really go too
far...
That whatever they might've meant to you makes you
who you are....
And I'm sorry if this little offering right now feels lame...
The truth is you're just gonna miss them, no getting
around that pain...

And of all the days I've gloriously squandered...
The ones that make me laugh into a sigh...
The hours where our little lives were pondered....
With the old man in front of The Y, waving to the
passersby...

They say when a person dies it's because they did their
part...
In the cosmic scheme of things and they live on in your
heart....
Well, I'm sorry if this little offering is no sermon on the
mount....
The truth is that it's once around so you better make it
count...

And of all the days I've gloriously squandered...
The ones that make me laugh into a sigh...
The hours where our little lives were pondered....
With the old man of front of the Y, waving to the passersby....
-CJC

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released November 28, 2023
Written and Performed by Christopher John Campion
Recorded by James Chan at Hi-Shelf Studios Long Island City, NY

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Christopher John Campion New York, New York

Christopher John Campion is a singer-songwriter/author known for his rollicking off-Broadway music-monologue-piece, Escape From Bellevue and the acclaimed memoir that followed on Penguin Books. In recent years he has toured and opened shows for M.Ward, Rhett Miller, and Violent Femmes and his songs have been featured in movies and on the CBS shows Instinct and NCIS:Los Angeles. ... more

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