Name: Many Times
Duration: P00H04M17S
Description: This song is about observing ones life in reference to where one is and where one feels one should be. The song beings with an observation about who I was as a child. The next verse is about lacking purpose. At the time I wrote the song, I probably wasn't in a good place and was feeling stuck without an ability to change my position.

Many Times

from In through the grey night by Julian Arbaugh

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This song is about observing ones life in reference to where one is and where one feels one should be. The song beings with an observation about who I was as a child. The next verse is about lacking purpose. At the time I wrote the song, I probably wasn't in a good place and was feeling stuck without an ability to change my position.

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Many times I wanted to know why
Many times I wanted to cry
Long ago I wandered alone.
Long ago I never, never knew
But I dreamed, oh I dreamed.

When I was a boy dreamed I was someone else
Dreamed I was a better man
Dreamed I was brave and smarter than all the rest
Deep down I knew. Oh I knew.

Fate had drawn me away
From a place I'd never seen
to help me make peace with myself some day
with a dream that would never, never be.

Someone saw me and said.
"Hey man, shouldn't you be dead?"
And I said, "Yeah man I should
And I'm grateful for all I have."

Long ago I wanted to know why
Long ago I wanted to cry
Many times I've wandered alone
Many times I've never never known..
But I dream oh I dream.

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from In through the grey night, released May 2, 2021

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