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Life Without Me

by Chris Haddox

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A song about the truths--good and bad--of West Virginia's coal-based economy.

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I fed you

I clothed you

I sent you to school

I provided for nearly all of your needs

Built your highways

Built your ballfields

Built your parks and your pools

Ain’t it time you lived life without me?



Life without me you’re gonna find

Gonna take up every muscle in your mind

Once the future was too far away to see

Now it’s here and it’s clear you’re nowhere near prepared

For life without me



I bent you

I broke you

Took your breath away

Wrapped your dead in my darkness for keeps

Still you sit there

Reminiscing

About the good ‘ol days

Can’t wrap your head around life without me



Careful where you draw your water—I done my business there

Say a pray for your sons and daughters every time they breathe the air

I have friends, you may have heard, don’t you listen to a word they have to say

I’m just a dirty rotten killer on the cleanest of my days ......



Look around you

All the places

Where I carried out my reign

Ah, the kingdom’s crumbling everywhere I see

No promise

No wishful thinking

Gonna bring it back again

Go on—get on to life without me

credits

released March 18, 2022
Johnny Staats, Mandolin; Clint Lewis, Bass; Ron Sowell; Rhythm Guitar; Julie Adams, BG vocals; Ammed Solomon, Drums; Chris Stockwell, Dobro; Jesse Milnes, Fiddle; Chris Haddox, lead guitar and vocals.

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Chris Haddox Morgantown, West Virginia

My songs are an attempt to make sense of the world around me. I write about the people, places, events, ups and downs, and in-betweens that continue to shape me. Some will make you laugh, others cry. Some will make you happy, others angry. All are honest expressions of how I experience and see the world. ... more

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