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Don't Give Up (On Yourself)

from Limerence by Paul Soupiset

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belting out his borrowed song
when all the other birds just’a come and gone
son take a lesson from the mockingbird
(you gotta) keep on singing if you wanna be heard

don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t give up on yourself
now lonesome is as lonesome does
listen to the calling of the morning doves
i feel em, i know em, i get their pain
hands in my pockets walking in the rain

don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t give up on yourself

canary in a coal mine catching her breath
crooked crow laughing at Death
“Hold fast your dreams because if they die,
life’s a broken-wing bird that cannot fly” [Langston Hughes]

i’ve known darkness; i’ve had my fill
a nightowl soaring past my window sill
sparrow: she visits when i need her the most
like a sacred apparition from a holy ghost

belting out his evening song
when all the other birds just’a come and gone
daughters take a lesson from the mockingbird
keep on singing if you wanna be heard

don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t give up on yourself

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from Limerence, released September 20, 2021

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Paul Soupiset San Antonio, Texas

Paul Soupiset [SOUP • a • ZAY] is a graphic designer, illustrator, painter, poet, editor, typophile, songwriter, liturgist, and armchair theologian. Paul makes his home in San Antonio where he was born in 1969.

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