Name: Oh Loss, Oh Sorrow
Duration: P00H06M45S
Description: Dave: I wrote this in the deep dark pit of heartbreak several years ago, actually one of the first songs I'd written, and didn't even have music for it, just the vocal melody accompanied by my own hand percussion on a wooden table.

Oh Loss, Oh Sorrow

from Migrations by The Littlest Birds

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Dave: I wrote this in the deep dark pit of heartbreak several years ago, actually one of the first songs I'd written, and didn't even have music for it, just the vocal melody accompanied by my own hand percussion on a wooden table.

lyrics

Oh Loss, Oh Sorrow
Will I feel alive tomorrow
Or will I die and have to borrow
just a few of your tears right to my grave

Oh she's gone maybe forever
I don't know if I can let her
Go alone or with another
But she looks at me like a history

Chorus:
Oh Loss, Oh Sorrow
Will I feel alive tomorrow
Or will I die and have to borrow
just a few of your tears right to my grave

If I could walk back that day I walked away
If I could take back all those mistakes that I made
Then maybe I could look back on my life
And my heart wouldn't feel so full of shame

Chorus

How can I go on livin'
With this empty soul that I've been given
Oh I've drivin' to the heart of the wind
I'm just prayin' she'll blow me back in.

Chorus

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from Migrations, released October 14, 2011
David Huebner Arr. The Littlest Birds

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The Littlest Birds Laramie, Wyoming

The Littlest Birds is the banjo-driven music of and Sharon Martinson, performing both solo concerts and currently with several duo and trio configurations. "Think instrumental virtuosity balanced by a breezy, backwoods soul, music that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally soothing."
- Dan Bolles, Seven Days Weekly, Burlington VT, 2011 ... more

discography

Live & Lucky

Jun 2014
Migrations

Oct 2011
Debut

Oct 2010

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