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My Little Fight

from The Person I Admire by Joe Holt

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I didn't ever think that I was good so I would blame it all on luck
and I didn't ever feel like I was worth somebody's love, and so it stuck
I didn't ever practice and I didn't ever try or see the point
and I never really gave my very best - I would detest to disappoint
and I tell myself I'm not the same as I was then

and I'm full of faith in love, in me and you, in us,
contrarily I don't believe in souls or ghosts or God
or even, usually, in me
oh, hypocrisy
and I'm working every day to find a way inside the person I
aspire to be; eventually, the person I admire will be me
I am not the same as then

My parents wouldn't praise me if I couldn't do the things they say I can
My friends wouldn't support me if I wasn't worth the effort of a hand
and you would never love me if my image of myself was who I am
Does all that mean I'm not the same as I was then?

and I don't save lives or work in mines so that my family survives
I don't donate to charity, I don't even recycle with any
regularity
and I place more value in a single freckle on your back than in the whole of me
and constantly, I love you so intensely I can't see
that I am not the same as then

am I real?

I will give myself the glory that I give to you and give to love
the kind that men from southern Tennessee give to guns and God above
Make America Great Again
I will move along and fight my little fight to be a better man
and every night I'll grow a bit more bright and gather evidence to cite
I am not the same as then
No I am not the same as then

credits

from The Person I Admire, released May 30, 2017
Joe Holt - vocals, guitars
Matt Byron - upright bass
Caleb Barnett - drums
David Boroff - violin
Alison Holt - viola
Mason Lieberman - cello

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Joe Holt New York, New York

Joe is a folk singer/songwriter originally from England, whose music was praised by Obscure Sound as "stirring, eloquent songwriting," and by Ear to the Ground as "the real deal when it comes to folk songwriting." His music has been featured twice on NPR. He lives in New York City. ... more

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