Get It Right

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This was the first song I wrote for this album (though at the time I didn't know I was writing one) so I thought it would be fitting to be the first one I release in any capacity. It's a song about recognizing how life is a process... you know the cheezy cliche about it being a journey and all. I wanted to tell a quick story in three parts, three perspectives... from childhood to adolescence to adult. In each, we are trying to get life "right" without ever really getting anything truly right at all... its an impossibility, just like perfection. But it's in the "trying" that life comes close to "right" (if that makes sense). This song is dedicated to my Mom - Linda McCartney, for it was her hand that "woke me once more..."

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I've heard it all before
But I keep on, keep on falling
Falling with the chords
Til' I can't take anymore

I remember as a boy
Used to hold my breath forever
Falling my anger was stored
Til' her hand woke me once more

This time i'll get it right

Then we all turn eighteen
Still tryin' to live our dreams
Not worried of making amends
Just laughing and crying with friends

But we know how this story goes
The further we go down this road
The twists and the turns unknown
Cause we face our demons alone

This time i'll get it right

So I revisit as a man
Doing the best that I can
Teaching me to be me
To release and to breathe

I've heard it all before
Keep on, keep on falling
Falling with the chords
Til' I can't take anymore

This time i'll get it right

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from Engines of Revival, released August 18, 2020
Music and Lyrics - Ian M McCartney

Ian M McCartney - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Earl Maneein - Strings
Andrew Digrius - Horns

Recorded/Mixed and Mastered by Kevin Antreassian @ Backroom Studios

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