In The Dark

from Shortcuts To The By & By by Wes Dorethy

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Tear the pages from the ending
This can't be how it goes
I was just getting started
When the floor dropped from below

Now everything is backwards
The preacher's sitting in the pew
He's taken by some drunk stranger
He looks a lot like me

Growing with a loving family
But in the end we're all alone
I said the sky was more like home, man
But all the scientists say no

And I ignored the elephant
The dark mass in my head
Still don't talk too much about it

There's no promised land at the end of the road
There's no truth there nobody's never known
Just every right and every wrong
Every broken bloodied song
Laid out on a bleached dive bar floor
The "I love you," forever viewed
Turned nasty, dark, distorted truths
The fire that isn't there anymore
Just you and me and the dark
Trying our best to laugh and sing and dance
And fake eternity in the dark

I wanna say that things are changing
Who could keep going on like this?
But tomorrow morning I'll put coffee on
And forget this song even exists

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from Shortcuts To The By & By, released April 15, 2021

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Wes Dorethy Mountain Home, Arkansas

Wes Dorethy is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Mountain Home, Arkansas. Known for his solo music as well as fronting the band Patient Eyes and being half of songwriting duo Dorethy & McGrath, Wes has an eclectic style drawn from a wide range of influences but centered with a focus on honest storytelling and heart-on-your-sleeve vulnerability.

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