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Baby Steps

from Marriage Material by Lorkin O'Reilly

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Baby Steps

If I could only fly
I would set my sights right onto you
I would leave tonight
Float right out the window of this room

If I could drive I would
I’d drive across the ocean to you
There would be no one
No one who could stop me if I could

See last night I heard Evan
He was singing in my kitchen
This Blaze Foley song
To Sammy’s grandma through the phone

I was leaning against the counter
As he sang into the camera
“If I could only fly
I would bid this place goodbye”

I was struck right on my feet
What a journey this has been
Since flying out to JFK
to start this big adventure in the states

I remember eating pretzels
And staring out the plane
To a world I’d only seen
In films and magazines

Tony Hawk and California
Vanna White and the Wheel of Fortune
And Elvis in his tassels drinking 7up at the piano

I was stolen by it all
I was captured by the dream
Of the greatest infomercial
the world has ever seen

But I found you here
I found love and I found a family
For 7 years we never walked alone
I felt the love of all of you around me

Well its baby steps
It's a standing start but you gotta go
When Evan was in that kitchen
I felt the tiny power of a song
Fill and hold the air
These things we tell ourselves

This life is such a mystery
Were here and then were gone
But through the harshness of it all
Somehow the mystery carries on

I still believe in magic
I still believe in dreams
Still believe in the eternal
Calculations of the world

But its baby steps
Its a pregnant pause but we’ll start again
All past preparations thrown into the wash

Keep family around you
Be good to the ones you love
There light is not a given
And it's such a shame its not

Surround yourself with people
Who laugh and pick you up
Who care and hold you close
Who love to play Blaze Foley songs

If I could only fly

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from Marriage Material, track released August 6, 2021

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Lorkin O'Reilly Dublin, Ireland

Lorkin O'Reilly is a singer-songwriter who writes reflective narratives that fall naturally into the musical spaces he creates; warm, confessional sounds, with nods to traditional folk music. He came to the United States from Scotland when he was eighteen, and settled in New York's Hudson Valley. He currently resides in Catskill. ... more

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