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It Won't Be Long

from Light In The Dark by Matt Nakoa

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Music by Matt Nakoa & Roman Williams. Lyrics by Matt Nakoa.

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It Won't Be Long

Oh my grandfather,
You have gone to feed the lawn.
Your sons and daughters
Live to see another dawn.

Can you see the children
Playing games among the graves?
Their mothers whispering,
"Little children should behave!"

When we’re dead and gone
Life’ll be living on!
And it won’t be long!

Are we our bodies?
Are we these thoughts inside our heads?
Are we our money?
How can we spend it when we’re dead?

Will all our ashes scatter
After someone’s G-d drops the bomb?
Will it ever matter
Who is left, or right, or wrong?

When we’re dead and gone
Life’ll be living on!
And it won’t be long!

Sing your soul’s own song
Let them sing along
And when we’re dead and gone
You’re life’ll be living on!
It won’t be long!

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from Light In The Dark, released March 17, 2012
Matt Nakoa - vocals, rhodes, organ, synths. Eric French - electric guitar. Ryan Harris Brown - electric guitar. Walter Skorupski - bass. Corey Schreppel - drums. Joe Brogan - trumpet. Nancy Loedy - tenor sax. Sara Honeywell - trombone. Backing Vocals: Jillette Johnson, Jared Salvatore, Emily Hulslander, Haley Dawn Roth.
Recorded by James Zaner @ Bluejay Studios, Neale Eckstein @ Fox Run Studios, & Corey Schreppel @ The Schrepcot Center
Mixed by Corey Schreppel @ The Schrepcot Center
Mastered by Jonathan Wyner @ M-Works Mastering
Produced by Matt Nakoa & Corey Schreppel

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Matt Nakoa New York

Matt Nakoa is an award-winning songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. A modern troubadour, he makes his home on the highways and concert stages of America, and appears regularly with folk music icon Tom Rush. The Boston Globe says of Nakoa, “Between his piano chops and heartfelt originals on guitar, he drops jaws.” ... more

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