I Gotta Be Here

from Like Sunshine by SLD

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lyrics

I couldn't see the reason she was gone
No one can tell that anything I did was wrong
I gotta be here

There on the phone she told me, "it's so hard."
I could've laughed at the fun times there since she's been gone
Nobody said it would hurt so much to be so free
Why was it her who got everything, while I got me?
I gotta be here

Four on the clock and I'm still in the dark
No one can say that they know what life's like in my heart
Bundles of friends spinning 'round my head I'll go to sleep
Maybe when I wake up she'll be there in a dream

Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here

Maybe she's back to late to make a call
Suddenly all that I felt was good's turned into gone
Why do I need everything to be so neat and clean?
Why do I always sit around and think about what it means?

Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here

Maybe I'll never really know what it is about her
All I know now is what it's like to live without her
If she calls I gotta be here

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from Like Sunshine, released August 22, 2023
Written by Paul Costanza

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SLD Brooklyn, New York

An experiment that turned into a musical collaboration via email between two long lost cousins, Paul Costanza and Tom Parisi from Brooklyn, NY.

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Like Sunshine

Aug 2023
Lost

Aug 2020
Indigo Gray

Mar 2016

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