Be Okay

by North Lodge

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This song is about self reassurance in the face of unfamiliar, lonely environments. It is also about relationship insecurity. It's also about all the effort it takes to be human. No one said this would be easy ye. Let's all just be okay and we'll get through it together ye.

SAD BOPS

lyrics

Be okay, okay
Today has gone away
You say you need a home
Okay, hope you find it someday
Away from friends and family
Your heart's not in it like you thought it would be
It takes more than what you tell yourself
To be okay

It takes more than the drugs you take
It takes more than the friends you make
It takes more than your crying eyes
It takes more than you thought it would
It takes more than I can manage alone
Find a reason to call your own
It takes more than what you tell yourself
To be okay

Hold me, contemplating
Our own private reasons
How can I know yours are on my side?
We live in this nightmare forging our demise
That's the deal we both made
And if it should break, it's only what we say.

credits

released April 1, 2020
Mixed, Recorded, Engineered on the Tascam 688 cassette recorder (and some digital mixing) by Joe Merkle (That's me).

Mastered by Jack Lickerman.

Cover photo by Julia Fletcher

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North Lodge Chicago, Illinois

North Lodge is Joe Merkle.

Sweater by the fireplace music <3

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