I'll Go Blind

from All Your Days - LP by James O'Brien

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Were we broken, weeping, wailing, spinning
Open-mouthed to swallow all that killing
For a dollar more, a dream, a fantasy
I think we were
You bet we were

I go blind
I go free
By design and desire
There’s nothing left to see
Anymore

Hold the handle of a knife
You’re taking or you’re giving
Would we ever slip this so-called living
All the property, the salaries, the stuff
I don’t think we would
No man, we never would

I go blind
I go free
By design and desire
There’s nothing left to see
Anymore
Anymore

This life can’t go on forever, can it
Clinging to the broken, choking planet
Is there a drink to drown us while we’re sinking
There doesn’t seem to be
I never found one, though I tried

I go blind
I go free
By design and desire
There’s nothing left to see
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore

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from All Your Days - LP, released January 11, 2022
Guitars, vocals: James O'Brien
Synth bass: Matthew Girard
Drums: Richard Adkins

Mixed and mastered by Matthew 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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