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- Single: Give Up And Live
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- Songs For Steve
- Released: Mar 24, 2014
- Label: Mark Fielding Darden
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Liner Notes
While creating this album in Steve's honor, I was searching through old songs. I thought I had found all that were worth saving when I came across this one. It was so overlooked that I had never even written the words down anywhere. Never. Truly lost except for this one recording... and it is a very sweet, tender song. Even the recording was pristine and innocent. Just me and a guitar written and recorded some 40 plus years ago, and today is January 2013. I will turn 60 in a few months. Sooner or later, you've got to give up and live....
Give Up And Live
See the rainfall
Hear the ducks call
Know that this is all
Everything that's here is just what you've made it
All of your life, you've dreamed and created
Sooner or later, you've got to give up and live
Feel that early morning wind bite
Look up through the trees and see the dawn's light
Believe in yourself and know that what's right
Is only what you see when you look hard at yourself
Not a handful of safeties stored on some shelf
We come and we go, and there's no reason to be afraid
So breathe deep and breathe long
Try to play your own song
And don't be afraid to be wrong
Cause sooner or later, we've got to give up and live
Written by Mark Fielding Darden in Raleigh NC in 1971
Recorded by Steve Nellis in 1972 in Panama
(c) 1972 Rooting Star Productions