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I Sold My Soul

from Quit Your Whining by Rocky Leon

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I was Playing in the streets of San Francisco in early 2011, improvising new tunes when I got the inspiration for the chorus of "I Sold My Soul", although I was doing exactly what I wanted at that time. The melody got washed away by the flow of new ones. Later that year however I found myself forced to work a job that was so time consuming and energy draining that I even began to neglect my music, the one thing that gives me a sense of purpose in life.
After I quit that job I was sitting by the riverside one sunny afternoon and once again the melody floated into my head and along with it the line "your heart once burned bright like the sun".
This song is for everyone who feels trapped in a life determined entirely by a wrong decision they made in the past. We still have and always will have the power to determine our future with the decisions we make now.

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i sold my soul

well now your heart once burned bright like the sun
but now you're all grown up and those days are done
and you don't love anyone, you don't have any fun
you forgot how to fly when you learned how to run

you complain that you're no longer young
and the strain of living life under the gun
is driving you crazy. the face of a lady
is burned in your brain and now here you are saying to me

i sold my soul

you once had a lady who could get you to dance
but the love of you life didn't fit in your plans
when you got a good job and you thought it was your shot
to become a rich man you just get one chance

so you left for the city but she couldn't come too
you forgot about her, she forgot about you
and you spent your life being used like a tool
what a fool, what a stupid fool i've been, you say

i sold my soul

mama take me home

you're the one that i want and i'm gonna get you back
cuz this life without you is dead and black
and lovin' is what i got to give
i'm gonna quit my job i'm gonna start to live

and stop being a slave
i gotta stop being afraid

you once had a passion for the art that you made
but your daddy said "NO! you gotta get paid
and if you follow this path, kid, i'm afraid
can you feel my fear? you should be afraid!"

so you let that fear color all you could see
you just wanna be safe, who needs to be free?
so you sold your soul, but low and behold!
you still got no security

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from Quit Your Whining, track released October 14, 2012

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