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Life After LA

from North From Here by Henry Mansfield

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you're making a list of things that feel important and real. they won't feel that way in a few years. your socks are soaked.

lyrics

Watch our history go
Turned over in a game of Concentration in reverse
At first, I lost sleep on your explanations
Until the realization
I'm not safe with you anymore

CHORUS
When LA finally slides into the sea
We'll watch on our TVs
Stay home and grieve
But day by day, there's drift in the memory
Morning priorities shift away from the ache
And that's you and me love
It's history now and that's all it ever will be

I'd say a word and we'd see
Venn diagrams combine and share a meaning
Smile, draw and turn, they match
We spent hours on names and finally found a great one for the future
But you don't call it that anymore
I'll pull on my side, you pull yours

CHORUS

History now and that's all it ever will be
History now, and that's all, that's all

You've got friends in the writer's room
I've got friends rewriting too
And they'll both convince us we're the more mature ones
You're getting up and you miss me
I'm getting up
Guess what?
In the moments right before these memories close up
I will get better but enough’s enough

We took our separate ways out
With water round our ankles as we both looked on

LA finally fell into the sea
We watched on our TVs
Oh God, I grieved
And day by day
The months mowed the memories that both of us could have kept safe in the morning hours but
It'll never come back
History now, and that's all you ever will be

credits

from North From Here, released May 24, 2018
henry mansfield -- piano, lead vocal, background vocals
sage mitchell -- bass
michael moore -- drums
amanda castelli -- trombone
josh britt -- trumpet

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Henry Mansfield Seattle, Washington

Seattle and LA-based anthemic piano rock. The best parts of Ben Folds, Death Cab for Cutie and Slingshot Dakota.

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