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With one shoulder hiked up around my neck
My legs turned against the warm television set
A man sits in the corner of his little mansion
And he doesn’t know the damage of his philosophy’s expansion but
No one here can help me or judge me in my finding
They’re just here to close me closer, and celebrate my dying.

So I sit in my little room where I’ve made my little study
And I write and listen all day to find my inner harmony
But here one lives by static, as it tries to undermine you
It says, “That’s not what life is like!” as opinions override you
So you try to pace your answers ‘cause you don’t want to fight
You may not know what life is, but you know what it’s like.

So I close myself in closer to my innards inner warning
I enchant the evening and I pacify the morning
And I knock my friends off, in their dreams of softer voyage
Who pump me like a life raft and mount me to keep buoyant
They can’t bear to see the might sharp, refined nor underdressed
They can’t clean up their own acts, but they won’t accept your mess.

So, I close myself in closer to my books, guitar and pen,
I sing for a freedom I was closer to back then
But I can’t resist this storm of theories and abstractions
That explain my delinquencies and excuse my reactions
So that one day when I look behind to judge this woman’s choices
I’ll measure them by the heed of these navigating voices.

But “All is better done than said”, a wiser one said to me.
“Organize your thoughts. Develop by degrees.”
So I work to stupify my curious and fickle ways
That’ll build a testament to these ‘new and improved’ days
Cause, all is better done than said, and so this end must serve,
I must put my thoughts to test and at best, amend these useless words.

Time for change.
Time for change.
So hard to change,
But I don’t want to stay the same.

Don’t want to change.
So hard to change
But I cannot stay the same.

All Lyrics and Music by Romina Di Gasbarro
© 2010 Romina Di Gasbarro (SOCAN)

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from Poema, released June 15, 2010
Romina Di Gasbarro - voice, guitar, songwriter, arranger
David Occhipinti - guitar
Andrew Downing - bass, cello
Aisslinn Nosky - violin
Karen Moffatt - viola
Jean Martin - drums

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Romina Di Gasbarro Toronto, Ontario

Singer, songwriter, guitarist - Romina’s music is old-world, new-world and somewhere in between. A unique voice in songwriting, this artist defies categorization remaining dedicated to her own ideas of beauty. Romina's solo discography includes, Little Rome (EP, 2004), Poema (2010), and Risorgimento (2018). ... more

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