Right Where I Am

from Making Friends with Ghosts by Kristen Leigh

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Now it ain’t safe to walk at night and I’m getting tired of this fight
I know that sometimes it’s hard to get it right,
but maybe your collar’s just on too tight.

You think you got it figured out, boy, but you’re so far from what I’m about
Why don’t you go on, and be a man,
and leave me right where I am?

I wonder if it’d be to easy to sit and watch you try and please me
You feed me an image too hard to swallow,
the kind of life you wish I’d follow.

You think you got it figured out, boy, but you’re so far from what I’m about
Why don’t you go on, and be a man,
and leave me right where I am

because I won’t be a prisoner –
building walls and waiting for someone to climb,
believe it or not I’ve got better ways to waste my time.

I could try and conjure up some feeling so you’d see me as appealing
but lately things are so distorted,
I think I’ll wait until it’s sorted.

You think you got it figured out, boy, but you’re so far from what I’m about
Why don’t you go on, and be a man,
and leave me right where I am?

You think you got it figured out, boy, but you’re so far from what I’m about
Why don’t you go on, and be a man,
and leave me right where I am?

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from Making Friends with Ghosts, released August 20, 2010

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Kristen Leigh North Carolina

North Carolina native Kristen Leigh's music blurs the lines between genres and styles, drawing from a diverse range of influences to produce unique, folk-based compositions with orchestral arrangements that are at once playful, provocative, and prophetic. Her emotionally honest lyrics explore themes like vulnerability, poverty, grief, redemption, disillusionment, courage, love, and defiant hope. ... more

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