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However You Can

from Western Reserve by Howard Simon

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However You Can

I don’t know if I’ve been a good man
Most days I give it my best
Sometimes I walk in God’s graces
Sometimes I fail the test

My son died in Kandahar province
My wife died in pain the next year
My daughter’s a doctor in Boston
Who sacrificed kids for career

So love me as if I’m your brother
Love me as if I’m your man
Love me as one loves another
Love me however you can

I worked the GE floor in Warren
Made lights bulbs for nine thousand days
And in ’14 they banned incandescents
And the last hundred jobs went away

Now I sit in the glare of fluorescents
Hard light on the family room floor
And I think of the good days we had here
Good times I won’t have any more

So love me as if I’m your brother
Love me as if I’m your man
Love me as one loves another
Love me however you can

This life is a trial, this life is a road
We walk the last mile alone
But I choke back the bile and shoulder the load
And think of the love I have known

I mostly spend time with myself now
My daughter, she calls once a week
And the days flow by like a river of time
Whole days when I don’t even speak

But I hope I’m at peace with my Maker
I’m making my peace with my fate
Still, sometimes I stare out the window
And wish that it wasn’t so late

So love me as if I’m your brother
Love me as if I’m your man
Love me as I loved another
Love me however you can

I don’t know if I’ve been a good man
Most days I give it my best
Sometimes I walk in God’s graces
Sometimes I fail the test

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from Western Reserve, released August 22, 2020
Howard Simon: acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocal
Derek Bianchi: electric guitar, bass, drums
Libby McLaren: keyboard, backing vocals

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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