Name: Better After Bitter
Duration: P00H03M11S
Description: Sweetness tastes sweeter with a little un-sweet.

Better After Bitter

from The Common Folk Allure by Zachary Parker Stevens

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Sweetness tastes sweeter with a little un-sweet.

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Celebrate the good times with the bad
Separate the hyper from the ordinary
Painless and awake never add up to make a day
You forget when you drift off it's like the cycle never stops

So where did we begin, the sunlight meets the skin
Oxygen makes contact with the lungs
May the conscience teach the brain, it's not complete without the pain
You can only have some better after bitter

Racking up the reasons I am flawed
Racking up the points that make us equal
Salvation now lays down between our sin and God's sweet victory
I just pray that He has chosen me to love

So where does this one end, after the rocky road descends
The axle bent that makes this wayward sinner
Does my success in life depend, or will my pride be my defense
The spirit cuts to find what's in the center

Waiting like all that I can do is get by
Fear holds me down and helps me fail before I even try
I burn this house down to the ground
I'll give my clothes away and money
So I have nothing I can hold, so I have nothing to corrupt me

So where did we begin, the sunlight meets the skin
Oxygen makes contact with the lungs
May the conscience teach the brain, it's not complete without the pain
You can only have some better after bitter

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from The Common Folk Allure, released March 1, 2016

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Zachary Parker Stevens Remsen, New York

I live in Remsen, Ny. I've been playing music my whole life, and I've been writing music and recording for the past 5 years.

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