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Lift

by Keen Garrity

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lyrics

Singing this burden so weary and sore
The bundle I carry, I can’t anymore

I keep losing my grip
On this weight I can’t shift
My cuticles, ripped
It’s too heavy a lift


It’s too heavy a lift, it’s too taxing a task
It’s too heavy a lift, an impossible ask
No matter how I brace myself and rally for the hit
It’s a quest I must quit


I brought you up with me, tucked under my arm
But the dollhouse I built never suited your form

There were so many cracks
And I can’t hold a stitch
I didn’t know how to craft
You never could fit.

It’s too heavy a lift,
These boxes I pack
So heavy a lift
A palpable lack

No matter how I outfitted you for the fight
I couldn’t quite make it right

I’ve traveled the mists and appeased all the ghosts
I’ve built fortresses and turned trees into posts

Patched with scraps that I wear like they’re gems
I thank you for them

I confronted the dragon, I’ve dashed across pits
I’ve unstuck some swords and I shined them with spit

Though I’ve bested the hordes and heaved them off of cliffs,
It takes guts to admit:
I’m not ready for this.
I swept you in piles
Gingerly round my floor
There may still be some shards, but I can’t sweep anymore

It’s too fine of a grit
It’s too big of a mess
It’s too much to pick up, even though
There’s so little of you left

It’s so heavy a lift, too much of a task
So heavy a lift, an impossible ask

No matter how great my love for you is
I’m not bigger than this

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released April 29, 2023
"Lift," copyright 2023 Keen Garrity. Written, performed, and produced by Keen Garrity.
Guitars by Will Malone; Mixed by Matty Harris

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Keen Garrity Toledo, Ohio

Keen Garrity is a songwriter/producer with deep country music roots making storybook pop-rock. This Knoxville, Tennessee native's songs comfortably blend the weird and the woeful.

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