Uploaded January 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"The Other Side Of Free" by Mary Gauthier
Album: Dixie Kitchen (1996)
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LYRICS
I carry you with me like summer carries fall
Like daylight carries darkness to nights I recall
Those nights enfold me like you used to hold me till dawn’

I’ve been to the bottom took a good look around
On my hand and my knees where surrender is found
I pray to forget you, yet in my heart you live on

You didn’t want the need that I gave you
I lost my dignity
In the cool of your shimmering shadow
Where I live with you inside of me
On the other side of free

You came thru to court me from another century
The web spun behind you a shrouded mystery
I no longer fight it your candles blessed and I light it and pray

You didn’t want the need that I gave you
I lost my dignity
In the cool of your shimmering shadow
Where I live with you inside of me
On the other side of free