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This one goes out to the one I love. . .

In January I married the love of my life after 8 years of being together. Stevie is everything to me. She is my lover, my best friend, my support, my family, my band mate, my collaborator, my confidant, my beautiful muse and now my wife, too.

She’s spent the last 8 years teaching me to do something I managed to avoid all of the first half of my life, which is to write a sincere and honest love song. “Wish Me Well” is another entry in that lesson book.

Rainier Maria Rilke warned a young poet to “not write love-poems; avoid at first those forms that are too facile and commonplace: they are the most difficult” and I found that to be true. At least, all the way up until I found a love that was more true.

I want to write her these love songs and worship her beauty in the pits of an ugly world, because that’s the same way the love we share already exists. So, this song is about a light that keeps shining through the enveloping darkness, and that fire that could keep burning through an eternal night.
And if you like it and want to sing it, it can be for the one you love too, but when I sing it, it will always be for her.

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San Francisco, if we wanted
We could get there by the morning
And we could be almost anything
If we didn't have to work to eat

We could admire a performance
Or sin rehearsing our slow dance steps
Repeat, repeat, repeating until we're certain we won't fail

Cause if nothing to lose means nothing at all
We might find we wasted a lot of each other's time
But that's what most of the time is for

If you were a fire I'd be moving to Hell
You could wish me well

Some day I'll build us a big house
Somewhere pretty or just somewhere else
Some place with seasons
Some where we can breathe in
But if some day never comes
You can hold on to me
And I will hold on to you
And we will fight

I hope we're not fighting our whole lives
But mostly for the sake of the other side
Cause if you were the ocean
I'm those ice caps that are melting
If you were a fire
I'd just be fire as well, kid
If anyone doesn't like it and needs someone to tell it to

They can meet me in hell
They can meet me in hell
And I wish them well

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from A Good Way to Say Goodbye, released March 1, 2019

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Cameron Smith is a folk singer and songwriter from Fort Worth, TX

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