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Love Em Anyway

from Lost on Purpose by The Castaways

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LOVE ‘EM ANYWAY Richard Russell

You gotta wonder at this life we live,
walking around on this earth
Back and forth we pace, furiously,
careful not to stir anything up…
If we never take a risk, we never stretch;
never forgive, we never forget
And then aren’t we just as strange
as the ones we’re pointing at?

You step outside of the circle, and after your eyes adjust
You see the headlight of our moon that floats
in the darkness up above;
Then you remember your good fortune
breathing here at all this day,
And though you can’t remember exactly what you learned,
you couldn’t say it out loud anyway

First you try and well may fail
Again and again sometimes, to no avail
Until the day you trust the wind and then you start to sail
When you let love illuminate, and you love ‘em anyway
When you let love light up your way,
and learn to love ‘em anyway

They may make you mad, they may make you crazy,
may be sad as you, but twice as lazy
They may be on your back or maybe at your door,
they could be calling in, or sleeping on the floor
But don’t bother tryin’ to make sense of none
Just take a deep breath and pray that when it’s done love has won
‘Cuz at the other end and no matter what they say…
You gotta look ‘em in the eyes and love ‘em anyway…
It’s what I hear the prophets say…what I hear the wind explain…

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from Lost on Purpose, released September 21, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Richard Russell

Richard Russell - lead vocals & guitars
Jesse Snyder - saxophone
Brian McCree - upright bass
Pat Eskildsen - guitars
Alex Czerny - keyboards
Noa Eads - drums
Valerie Rosa - backing vocals

Produced by Richard Russell
Recorded by Joey Bradley in the Studio Kumau Barn
Mixed and mastered by Garey Shelton, GSS Seattle

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Ricardo "Richard" Russell lived in the Pacific Northwest for the first 40 years of his life, and then moved to the Island of Hawaii. He has been writing songs since high school, and has so far produced 12 albums of (mostly) original music. Ricardo was a nickname his grandfather gave him as a child… ... more

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