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Present Perfect

from Lost on Purpose by The Castaways

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PRESENT PERFECT Richard Russell © 2012

Driving home, through a tunnel of pines
Tryin' to boil it down to a few short lines
Seems like we're passing so many signs —
Waiting for the one

But this time things might be different
Though they may look just the same
Don’t be distracted by the stories
Of past or future pain
Here, in the present perfect, it’s clear – we’re better off alive
There are no words, and no likely suspects
for the sweetest things we find
So what do I say to my heart today?
"Come on, please—pick me up again
For another year, or just another page
Hold steady please, just let me stay”

Words just cannot do justice to what they’re tryin’ to describe
You can promise anything, but you only know it if you tried
I can feel the years passing, and some things get easier to see
But how we made it this far…remains a miracle to me
Here we are, in the present perfect –
Where we are better off awake
No explaining and no waiting –
You just give more than you take
So that’s what I say to my heart today:
"Come on, please—lift me up again
For another year, or just another phase
Hold steady please, let me stay…
So I can play, your rhythm live
Back to the world, every day and night
Your pulses are my deepest food
Every beat is gratitude”

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

Richard Russell - lead vocals & guitars
Jesse Snyder - saxophone
Brian McCree - upright bass
Pat Eskildsen - guitars, backing vocals
Alex Czerny - keyboards
Noa Eads - drums
Jeff Busch - percussion
Mahina Lee - 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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