Taking Back the Reigns

from Gut It to the Studs by Letitia VanSant

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I feel beneath my feet this stairway of stone
My mission calls me down these ancient catacombs
Won't be long before the torch dies
Nothing but darkness for my eyes
This task I must complete alone

Too many years I've been walking in my sleep
My actions guided by these forces unseen
I'll wait forty days and forty nights
My demon hiding out in his disguise
I came to look him in the eye

There is a hole down in the heart of every man
Its hunger swallows everything in its path
I will learn its face and I will learn its name and
I am taking back the reigns

My fear of famine transformed to a selfish greed
Of this shameful sin well I do guilty plead
Stole more than I begged or borrowed
Caused others a world of sorrow
I came to tame this reckless beast

If every man has this fear down in his soul
Then left unchecked it will rule the whole world
I will learn its face and I will learn its name and
I am taking back the reigns

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from Gut It to the Studs, released February 2, 2018

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Letitia VanSant is a singer-songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland.

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