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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

from B​-​Sides and Covers: 2015​-​2017 by Matt Collaborate

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This was recorded in July of 2016. This was supposed to be the first song on an LP but I scraped all the songs. It sounded too emo and like a Jimmy Eat World song. Written before the anniversary of a friends birthday that passed away years ago. Nostalgia and also realizing all your friends are moving away. Of course a Bukowski reference in the title.

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"We are gathered here today..."
(Is how we got started)
"...To say goodbye to our dearly departed"
Since you've been away the paint has started to chip away.

The summer you were born,
like the summers we used to spend on the pike.
All our friends would meet at Carmine's until the day came to an end.

Your house was a place where we would all meet
on that hot blacktop street where we used to skate.
The days ran away like wild horses gone astray

If you were here now I'll tell you about how all our friends moved away
or went separate ways.
I think your family'd be proud of the man you became.

If you could change time,
Would you want to press rewind?
If you could change fate,
Would he still be here today?

I had a dream we were in a field like a movie screen,
I spent one last time with you. It was the day after you died.
If I could go back, spend one last time to say goodbye,
oh, why did I have to say goodbye?

If you could change time would you want to press rewind?
If you could change fate would he still be here today?
If you could change time just what would you say?
I'd say "My friend, I'd like to spend one more day."

If you could change fate would you still be here today?
If you could go back, just what would you say?

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from B​-​Sides and Covers: 2015​-​2017, released June 15, 2017

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Matt Collaborate Evesham Township, New Jersey

A solo project where I do a lot of covers, and originals that I write or collaborate with people.

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