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On the Brink

from The Mend by Jason Tyler Burton

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I am all about taking risks in life, hopefully well managed, thought out, and calculated. I have friends who have at one time or another appeared on the far ends of the risk taking spectrum. One broke her back pushing too far, the other can't seem to take any risks at all. But they want the same thing.

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She stopped in a meadow of wildflowers
And stooped down to take off both her shoes
She looked up where the wind blew on the divide
And wilted beneath the weight of the news

Said I want my world wild not mild
Said I don’t want to live just to grow old
I want to see the broken get mended
I want my world whole

He sat alone in his cluttered room
Roots grown deep into the soil of his youth
While all around him stretched the ruin of a home
He could have saved while he was searching
For the truth

Chorus

We are standing on the brink
A gust wind is all it would take
To change direction of the rain falling down
To change the direction of our fate

I want the whole world whole

© 2010 Jason Tyler Burton

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from The Mend, track released February 29, 2012
Backing vocals by Toni Melton - www.tonimelton.com

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Jason Tyler Burton Wyoming

Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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