Thanks for watching! :) This is an original off of my new album 'Blue Jays (Northern Nostalgia)' which is now available here: eliotterholt.com/music/ It's a little less polished than some of my other more recent videos but I felt like the song could use a little more vulnerable feel instead of sounding closer to perfect. Anyway I hope you like it! I did already release this video but the audio wasn't lining up after something went wrong in the rendering process so you're not just going crazy. :) Lyrics: V1: her mom's talkin' bout her future again how she's gonna be a lawyer or a surgeon she told her listen up and drop that drawing pen she doesn't like it but she obeys anyway cuz mama says "it's what keeps you safe" 6 figure pay and a 401k promise me you won't make my same mistakes... and you'll appreciate Chorus 1: cuz he was gonna be an architect and she was gonna play the clarinet and they were gonna buy a corvette and drive to the coast in a sunset silhouette It was a picture perfect moment until he took a wrong turn and only she was left no school no job couldn't pay the rent but he left a present inside of her to remember him Bridge 1: and now her daughters in grade 4 and she took her out to see the waves roar but the daughter wanted nothing more then to draw in the sand on the shore and she's been here before with the man she's still waiting for and she remembered the note that he wrote and she'd hid in her top drawer and she remembered his hope and the daughter, she'd have to answer for Chorus 2: and he'd said "Our daughters gonna do what she wants to and our daughters gonna follow suit if I could only have one dream it's that our daughter lives like you" our daughters gonna do what she wants to and our daughters gonna follow suit if I could only have one dream it's our daughter lives like you do V2: from that point on her mother changed her tone and the daughter didn't know why her mother cried all the way home the next day she brought her daughter all her father's old pencils and drawing board and said treasure this and promise me you'll pursue what you're meant for Chorus 1 again V3: and now her daughters all grown found a good man and a small home and her artworks on the wall bought to have a daughter in the fall but her mothers at death's door disease about to reach her core and as her daughter helps her go through her drawers she finds the note from a lifetime before and to her mother she assures Chorus 2: my daughters gonna do what she wants to and my daughters gonna follow suit If I could only have one dream it's my daughter lives like you taught me to. and my daughters gonna do what she wants to and my daughters gonna follow suit if I could only have one dream it's that my daughter lives like you

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