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Gather Me Together and Take Me Home

from Morning Song by American Elm

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I want my life back
but some of it I don't want back
the harsh unfinished edges, the loving that I lacked
bring me in the light
take away the black

I know I've been changed
my body left broken, my soul reclaimed
thrown from the heavens, humbled and lame
like a hand that reached down
I'm no longer the same

Some things that used to matter
they don't matter anymore
and what's come to matter most
has now come to matter more
I woke up in a ditch on the side of the road
gather me together and take me home

Out on the street
a stranger wandering
Forty years in the desert, longing to be free
I found the bitter water
and the water became sweet

Some things that used to matter
they don't matter like before
and what's come to matter most
has now come to matter more
I woke up in a ditch on the side of the road
gather me together and take me home

I woke up in a ditch on the side of the road
gather me together and take me home

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from Morning Song, released December 21, 2021

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American Elm New Haven, Connecticut

American Elm, aka Chris Bousquet, is singer-songwriter from Connecticut. He is the former leader of the internationally acclaimed High Lonesome Plains. He has performed with such luminaries as Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Mercury Rev, Miracle Legion, John Sebastian, Asleep at the Wheel, Rhett Miller, Mark Mulcahy, The Turtles, Nathaniel Rateliff, Dry the River, J. Geils, and Susan Cowsill. ... more

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