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Alright

from One By One by Travis Knapp

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lyrics

All I ever heard was you were a troubled child

All I ever heard was you can’t sit still and
Your mind is running wild
Lost your temper, lost your cool

Never did quite jive with school

All I ever heard was you were a troubled child

Sitting on the bus, headphones in your ears

Skates and boards would help to get you thru those years
Put on pills for ADD, legalized amphetamines

Overkill that gets stronger every year

If I could tell you then what I’d tell you now:
I see a light in you

If you knew then what you know now

I think you’d say this too:

It is alright, you are alright

Everything is alright, and it’s easy


You never thought you’d make it past 22

You did your best, that’s all that anyone can ever do
The way you make us laugh with ease

The way you love your family

Don’t forget that’s how we love you, too

Learning how to fight was a blessing and a curse
Something small could turn to something so much worse
It’s the wrong scene, someone wants to brawl

You knocked him out, now the law’s involved

Learning how to fight was a blessing and a curse

If I could tell you then what I’d tell you now:
You are a peaceful man

I think you knew then what you still know now:
Peace is in your hands

It is alright, you are alright
Everything is alright, and it’s easy


You weren’t yourself since who knows when
You knew the pills just had to end

So you cut them cold and told no one

Until all the chemicals were gone
Now the work has just begun

So remember this, my brother

I consider you a hero

I know this world will always hold you
It’s just like the old monk told you:

It is alright, you are alright
Everything is alright, and it’s easy

credits

from One By One, released July 9, 2019
Travis Knapp - lead vocals, banjo, & piano
Desmond Bratton - double bass
Byron “Kidd” Cage - drum set
Elisa Sciscioli - harmony vocals
Angie Beeler - harmony vocals
Jonathan Keefner - hand percussion
Harmony Malone - tambourine


All songs written by Travis Knapp

Mixing and Mastering by Nate Silas Richardson, REP Studio (Ithaca, NY - www.repstudio.com)

Recorded by Nate Silas Richardson (REP Studio), and by Travis Knapp (Fun Acres Studio + various locations)

Illustration by Linda Wingerter (www.paintedbooks.com)
Packaging design & layout by Pat Burke

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Travis Knapp Ithaca, New York

"Hopeful soul-lifting acoustic folk music rooted in pop, jazz, soul, and gospel - piano/banjo/guitar/vocals; from the fields, forests, ponds, and meadows of Ithaca, NY."

www.travisknapp.com

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