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Every chance you missed, everything you didn’t do
every mouth you kissed, every line that you cut through
every sad song you wrote down, every list and every look

You gotta to count yourself
yourself and all your friends
count your books, count your blessings
you can go first
but you can’t go back again

You were born in water, you were born in blood
you were raised in battles, baby, you did the best you could
there’s a wave that’s coming and it’s different than a flood
there’s no absolution but the ride is pretty good

You gotta count yourself
yourself and all your friends
count your books, count your blessings
you can go first
but you can’t go back again
yeah, you can go first
but you can’t go back again
you gotta to count yourself
yourself and all your friends
count your books and count your blessings
you can go first
but you can’t go back again
yeah, you can go first
but you can’t go back again

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from Careful in the Future - LP, track released August 15, 2018
Written, performed and recorded by James O'Brien
Mixed and mastered by Matt Girard

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022.
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