Refuse To Dance

from Even The Happy Ones Are Sad by Carter Felker

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I’ve been hearing lately that you’ve been doing funny things,
Like when you go out drinking, you take off your wedding ring,
I ain’t quite the man, I promised you I’d be but you know that I love you,
Don’t do this to me.

I come home from work and you’re yelling through the door,
Red faced as a cartoon, you can’t do this anymore,
I know that I’ve been trying, I can’t say the same for you, you can’t have your cake
and eat it too.

Well you loved me just this morning to send me on my way,
I come home in the evening and this is what you say,
You’ve got an awful feeling, since you took my ring, You’re a songbird in a cage
You’ve forgotten how to sing.

Whoever said love’s easy, didn’t have a clue
Or is it just the fact I gave my heart to you,
You’re begging me for castles but we’re living in the sand, It takes two to tango,
but you refuse to dance.

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from Even The Happy Ones Are Sad, released June 14, 2022

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Carter Felker Calgary, Alberta

Carter Felker traffics in music, yes, but even more profoundly in essence: the humdrum essence of Monday morning alarms clocks coming round again during lifetimes ticking on through thoughtless dawn moments walking across the kitchen floor; the craven essence of sneaking wordlessly away from a relationship and feeling the mute screen door sag shut behind you; the essence of everyday struggles -MLW ... more

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