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This Much To Lose

by Bryce Jardine

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1.
Bloody Harlan We had honest roads waiting for us then I was about your age now Houses on the rise, a theatre lit the strip With traffic on the streets in town I heard a rumble 'round that time through the halls of junior high Year's end I was flunking out They blew the hills to the sky while the world passed us by And the ghosts of bloody Harlan hung around Nothing coming for miles and miles Nothing but trouble to get up to at night We'd go down to the water with the sins of our fathers Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The deprivation of decline bore a hollow of his eyes Whisky to wash it all out And though he's long gone when the river's calm I can See him looking back at me anyhow And of all those boys I'm near the last of us left Neither elsewhere nor six feet south I settle 'neath the weather of an easy fix Where the ghosts of bloody Harlan howl The ghosts of bloody Harlan howl Now when the wind whistles over the hills through the broken Windows of that old house It chills to the bone given nowhere to go And it kills just to live it down You oughta never look back with the dreams that you have The plans your always talking about There just no good to come of a highway song Drowning in Harlan howl Nothing coming for miles and miles Nothing but trouble to get up to at night And you'll muddy up the water just like your father Where the ghost of bloody Harlan howl The ghost of bloody Harlan howl Drowning in a Harlan howl
2.
Out Of My Depth While the waves wash over me Caught in a current I drift on a wild wind to the foot of your bed Swells like pitching seas of raw emotion Carrying on since you've been gone Learning to swim over my head With a weight in my chest as I catch my breath Out of my depth At a stoplight sifting through radio static A song that liked on a 45 we played to death And you'd make me life until I'd cry Now I'm doing the opposite Carrying on since you've been gone Learning to swim in over my head Decades to run with, flood gates wide open Out of my depth Learning to swim in over my head Out of my depth An excitable boy and a runaway girl from the suburbs Just children in our wedding day photographs And thick thieves long after we'd parted as lovers I guess we needed each other I still loved you, always wills And it's been a long year Treading troubled water Red skies at dawn, ready or not I'm learning to swim, swept off my feet again Carrying on since you've been gone Out of my depth Learning to swim over my head Carrying on since you've been gone Learning to swim out of my depth
3.
Since You've Come Along Everything at once for the first time It's a lot to take on but she don't seem frightened I sat down to watch the news but I can't Take my eyes off of you No I'd never hear a word of it and maybe nor should I Nothing doing of any use, who needs to be reminded? Dreaming of tomorrow dawn beyond the falling sky Out of the clear blue, with shades of multitudes to come Riding out the storm and flying blind By the glow of a cartoon singing nursery rhymes Love shines through this endless night Since you've come along Everything at once and no let up in sight As you wake to a world we both don't recognize Trouble at our doorstep, a rogue riptide But I won't take my eyes off of you If or when this ever ends, your guess as good as mine Born into a whirlwind torn from the Bible Yet everywhere a wonder when I watch you for a while A lifeline, a whole lifetime to play out in the sun Riding out the storm and flying blind With a bedtime story I was read when I was a child Love shines through this endless night Since you've come along Where I can see trees of green Red roses all winter through And I think to myself how bleak it would be without you around How would they bloom without you? Riding out the storm and flying blind When reason would argue otherwise Love shines through this endless night since you've come along Ever since you've come along Love shines of a brighter day to dawn Since you've come along
4.
This Much To Lose It's been years, years since I've been dancing Spent the night walking in these shoes Few and far between come calling the occasions these days And it's been years since I've had this much to lose Somewhere along the way it all became a gamble And a leap of faith trust in someone new To leave you hanging from a lonely limb A young reckless wager It's been years since I've had this much to lose Oh what a feeling, forgive me love If I find it hard to let go Let go and open up Oh what a feeling falling for you It's been years since I've had this much to lose It's been years since I've had this much to lose Lonesome don't sit quiet While you hide out in plain sight The lights that look like sirens in the rearview Wrapped in all your fears the thorns you pick around here Folded at the edge of the bar as if to bet against you Forgive me if I should stumble On two left feet but how could I refuse? Only a fool would let the chance slip by From the one sure hand that you recognize You can't turn back and you don't want to Oh what a feeling forgive me love If I find it hard to let go Let go and open up Oh what a feeling falling for you It's been years since I've had this much to lose Oh what a feeling forgive me love If I find it hard to let go Let go and open up Oh what a feeling and what's a boy to do? It's been years since I've had this much to lose It's been year since I've had this much to lose

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released September 30, 2023

All songs written by Bryce Jardine
Produced by Bryce Jardine & Brad Kilpatrick
Mixed by Brad Kilpatrick
Mastered By Gavin Gardiner
Cover Art by Kieran Brent
Recorded at Palace Sound in Toronto, Ontario

Performed by: Bryce Jardine (vocals, background vocals, electric guitar, bass, synth), Nathan Gray (lead electric guitar, pedal steel), Alan Zemaitis (organ and piano) and Brad Kilpatrick (drums, bass and auxillary percussion)

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Bryce Jardine Toronto, Ontario

Bryce Jardine is an independent songwriter & recording artist. Jardine's songs are poetic, driven by folk-rock.
His 2023 release, This Much to Lose, is co-produced alongside producer, mixing engineer & drummer, Brad Kilpatrick.
Nathan Gray plays pedal steel & lead guitar & Alan Zemaitis plays piano & organ.

Jardine's LP, The Kids Are Gone was produced by Derek Downham & featured Serena Ryder
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