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Complacency

from Painted Sky by Schweitzer

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I went off to work an hour early just this morning
And I got home so late I thought that you’d be packed for goin’
I was hopin’ you’d be angry, pacin’ up and down
But you were sleepin’, smiling’, dreamin’, don’t I feel the clown

Cause when I got to work, well I just sat there in my car
And after work I’s sittin’ by myself in some old bar
Thinkin’ how I’d feel if you were me and I was you
I’d be mad as hell, but you were busy sawin’ wood

You done ceased to care… you don’t give a damn
‘bout what I do, with who or why or where I even am
So darlin’ you just sit there on your laurels, wait and see
If you don’t lose me solely due to your complacency

Yesterday I brought some roses home and you said “thanks”
And where’s the milk and eggs and did I put gas in the tank?
Cause you were off to see your mother, if that’s all right…
Yeah, that’s okay, I know you haven’t seen her since last night

Damn good thing we never got around to having kids
I know they’d be devastated, seein’ us like this

Cause you were once not long ago the center of my life
Now I’m on the outside lookin’ in and think’ twice
I hope I’m still around when you realize I’m the one
Who cared and kept on carin’ when the care in you had gone

You done ceased to care… you don’t give a damn
‘bout what I do, with who or why or where I even am
So darlin’ you just sit there on your laurels, wait and see
If you don’t lose me solely due to your complacency
So darlin’ you just sit there on your laurels, wait and see
If you don’t lose me solely due to your complacency
Cause you don’t seem to care, and you don’t give a damn

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from Painted Sky, released October 26, 2014
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Schweitzer Los Angeles, California

My brother started writing songs and that was the spark that started me on my own songwriting course that would last the rest of my life. I chose to use my surname, "Schweitzer," for practical reasons, realizing long ago that pronouncing "Richard Schweitzer" was difficult. "Schweitzer Projects" under the "tindog music & stuff" umbrella is producing songs in the Pop / Pop rock or folk categories ... more

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