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GIVEN

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Music & Lyrics by Shaina Taub

String Arrangement by Charlie Rosen

Lead Vocals & Piano: Shaina Taub:
Viola & Violin: Claudia Chopek
Cello: Alon Bisk
Cello: Meaghan Burke

Engineered, Fimed, Mixed, Mastered & Produced by Mason Jar Music

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GIVEN

My oldest friend
The usual spot for spilling guts and beers
This time my folks have broken up just shy of thirty years
The food arrives
The story stings

But it's a good, good, good, good thing
It's a good, good, good, good thing

The taste of toast and tacit jokes is softening the blow
This time my oldest friend has left her man two nights ago
I tear my paper napkin as we trade relief and woe
A seismic shift is happening

But it's a good, good, good, good thing
Is it a good, good, good, good thing?

When I remember this, will panic turn to anecdote?
When I remember this, will sobs turn into belly laughs inside my throat?

I cab it home to lay my head beside the one I hold
And as we sleep, I dream of how this memory will grow old
Preemptively nostalgic me

When I remember this, will we be wrinkled, gray and still together?
Or when I remember this, will I be wondering how the weather is where you may live?

Love is the one thing you can't take
It has to be given
It has to be given

Love is the one thing you can't take
It has to be given
It has to be given

Love is the one thing you can't take
It has to be given
It has to be given

And that's a good, good, good, good thing
We're a good, good, good, good thing