Experience from I, Autumnus by Autumn Dawn Leader

Anyone who takes the time to get to know me, it doesn't take them long to figure out that I tend to call a spade a spade. I didn't receive the rose-tinted eyes that so many others seem to possess. So, this song is in the same relative vein as my very 'tell it like it is' track "What It Is" that closed my 2018 EP 'A Collection of Tears'. I wrote this song at the beginning of the first Covid lockdown in 2020 and I feel it is a rather perfect way with which to close this album: and thus, with no more ado or digression, I leave you with my Experience.

Tracklist

10.	Experience	2:58

Lyrics

I've never seen myself
Only reflections
And I've never much liked
Most of what I've seen

Some of us have practiced social distancing for years
Either by choice, or because we were forced to
Distance so hard, distance so far
Even when it's only a metre or two
And, as for society, well, you know
Lonely is a word I used to use in crowds, though
Lonely is a word I used to use in crowds

Experience is just a polite word for pain!
Here I am again in isolation
Reaching out to you
Like I've done for years
With my worn out bag of words
And more than my fair share of tears
And experience, of course

Credits

from I, Autumnus, released June 25, 2021
Music and lyrics written by Autumn Dawn Leader
Vocal and acoustic guitar by Autumn Dawn Leader

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