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Don't Let the Future Scare You

by Years To Come

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1.
The Forecast 03:45
I stood on the edge of winter and looked toward spring To warmer days and sun shining But the clouds rolled in, a storm is coming You were always there Once dead but never gone You said, let's run but just for fun Two hearts on different sides of the storm If you don't believe Don't make it out to be easy If you don't believe I'll show you the best I can be I never knew she'd be the lightning in my rain Those April showers brough bitter pain Teach me to dance, oh sweet Elaine When you light the sky I can see everything I hoped for This weary road gets so much clearer If you don't believe Don't make it out to be easy If you don't believe I'll show you the best I can be If you don't believe If you don't believe If you don't believe If you don't believe If you don't believe Don't make it out to be easy If you don't believe I'll show you the best I can be
2.
I'm taking the first step out On a balmy summer day The fresh air rushes in Like nostalgia coming back Coming back from a time when we could relax Coming back from a time before Before we dug ourselves into this hole But you've got to know That we can go back We're breathing out the last two years of breathing in It's the deepest breath I've ever taken We're breathing now And never again will I say This is not who I am I've been down in this ocean For way too long And when I finally reach the surface To take a deep breath It feels like the first time I opened my eyes to the blinding sunlight It feels like, it feels like The first time you came home So get in the car and drive Farther than we've ever gone before We're breathing out the last two years of breathing in It's the deepest breath I've ever taken We're breathing now And never again will I say This is not who I am The sun starts to rise over the park in back yard And I am perfect where I am In the songs in my head In the memories we'll tell our kids Before they make their own We're breathing out the last two years of breathing in It's the deepest breath I've ever taken We're breathing now And never again will I say This is not who I am Not who I am We're breathing now We're breathing now This is now who I am
3.
The Road 03:58
Meet me where the road divides I won't let you leave alone Even though we'll say goodbye I know this road will lead you home I see all that we've been through From miles away From rocket ships to Saturdays in my basement I'll miss you every single day Meet me where the road divides I won't let you leave alone Even though we'll say goodbye I know this road will lead you home On that last August night at Whitney's That's when it hit me You were gone So long Then I realized why she cried Meet me where the road divides I won't let you leave alone Even though we'll say goodbye I know this road will lead you home
4.
I wrote my name in the dust on a picture frame The image still the same My reflection changed The glass was cracked The picture torn But those memories Still keep me warm Oh the glory days Oh the memories I wrote your name next to mine on the picture frame If you had known me on that day You could see how much I've changed I'm taller now My hair got cut I'm smiling now Unlike before Oh the memories Oh the memories
5.
This is how I remember you This is how you'll stay This is how I remember you This is how you'll stay Standing in a field Waiting for the sun to rise Or the rain to fall down On your shattered life And you don't really care which way it goes Cause worse wouldn't be so much worse than What you've been fighting For the last two years I tore that picture up It floats like dust in the wind In the morning air And you just closed your eyes And went on with your life Like no one really cared Those pictures of you Smiling with all your friends Are from before the world came down And sometimes I wonder if all those smiles Were just a face you put on To face a world that let you down I remember watching you fall And I remember thinking That it was all my fault Now I'm sitting in a field Waiting for the sun to rise Or the rain to fall down On my new life As much as I say I don't care which way it goes Worse would be much worse than What I've grown used to And I realize I'm so lucky to be alive Living is so easy with your eyes closed Living is so easy with your eyes closed Living is so easy with your eyes closed Living is so easy with your eyes closed
6.
I'm armed with everything I need Pen and paper and stories Love and loss written in ink You can't erase but you can change I could write your perfect love song Or laments about times gone The back cover isn't bound on With every moment comes a new blank page This story's nonfiction, it's not over yet This pen can't tell me what will happen next This is your story, you're living it now And you write the end This won't be bent from page to screen Broadway will never stage the scene Cause only you know what it means No one else can send that message So read all the fairytales and rhymes Live life by your favorite lines You're the narrator this time Don't let this be a boring passage This story's nonfiction, it's not over yet This pen can't tell me what will happen next This is your story, you're living it now And you write the end You write new chapters every day Breaking up and coming of age You wish you wouldn't seperate Like the couple in that novel It's anti-climactic, you know If you don't move on, let go I'm not saying don't have hope But you can make this end well This story's nonfiction, it's not over yet This pen can't tell me what will happen next This is your story, you're living it now And you write the end You've gotta run Too fast for him to catch you Cause you don't want Your story to read like She read about the past Over and over again Until her last day She died of regret Of never falling love again This story's nonfiction, it's not over yet This pen can't tell me what will happen next This is your story, you're living it now And you write the end You will write the end

about

Years To Come was active in some form or another from the fall of 2006 to the summer of 2010. In that time, we played 42 shows and wrote a few dozen songs, but Don't Let the Future Scare You was our only official release. We recorded it ourselves in the fall of 2009 in our practice space, which is what we called my parents' basement when we wanted it to sound cooler than it actually was, and we released it just before Christmas. In retrospect, the songs aren't great and neither is the recording quality, but I'm certainly not embarrassed by it. Like anything anyone does between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, it was about finding our voices and our identities and spending our time doing something we loved, even if the end result was flawed and imperfect.

This band meant the world to me, and I wanted our music to be preserved somewhere besides a long-defunct MySpace page where the player doesn't work and you have to scroll sideways to find anything. If you were around for any of this, I hope this record brings back some fond memories. It certainly does for me.

-Troy

PS: If you want a physical copy of this EP, I think I still have a box of them at home.

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released December 21, 2009

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Cale Sennett.

Years To Come was:
Brooks Bankord - Vocals, Keyboard
Bryan Hinrichs - Guitar
Jake Juodawlkis - Guitar
Troy Sennett - Bass
Cale Sennett - Drums, Piano

Additional vocals by Darion Murdock, Molly Briggs, and Natalie Jones
Viola by Molly Briggs

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