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If y’all clicked on my picture:
Yeah, that’s my chest; that’s my ink.
Got it the night before we deployed
from Fort Bragg to Afghanistan.
I was hungover pretty fierce
and the tat burned under my fatigues
dry heaving on liftoff,
and didn’t think about tomorrow.

“Sola Fide” inked over my heart.
“By Faith Alone” is what it means in Latin.
And no, I don’t speak Latin.
It’s a dead language,
A million years old,
but it lives on me.

Landing at Bagram, my first tour,
kinda like we landed on the moon—
a moon of ghosts and dust and bombs.
Place felt a million years old.
They didn’t train us for the boredom.
Every day was one extreme.
Either contact with a bad guy
or a family invites you to tea.

Don’t ask for my stories.
Don’t search for my scars.
Don’t try to fix what’s broke.
Just hold me.
When dreams in the night wake me up,
I got pills for that.
When the anger rises, got pills for that.
And if the pills run out, hold me.

“Sola Fide,” by faith alone.
May be a dead tongue,
a million years old,
but it lives on my skin,
and I’m still young.
I’m breathing through it,
I’m breathing today.
And I want to have faith in you.
“Sola Fide,” “Sola Fide…”

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from In Real Life, released July 8, 2022

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American Modern Recordings New York, New York

American Modern Recordings (AMR) specializes in recordings of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music by living American composers. AMR is also the house label for the American Modern Ensemble (AME) and its affiliated ensembles. Our albums are critically-acclaimed and top-sellers on Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, and everywhere recordings are sold. ... more

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