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How Good It Is

from Monkey Comfort by Penelope Swales

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How good it is
© Penelope Swales

How good it is
To walk away
To free myself from all that pain
How good it was
To finally hear you say
What it was about me that
Got in your way
You spent so much time
Trying to be so nice
Sometimes it’s better
Just to spill your guts
To be real
Bout how you really feel
Even if it comes out
Sounding a little rough

You were so full
Of brave ideals
About the things that we could be
But you can’t impose these things from above
The tree doesn’t grow from the leaf
And it’s a fine thing
To wanna lift your game
But when things get tough
It’s the part of us that’s lame
That decides what will be
And what can’t be

I spent so much time
Time in my life
Trying to be something
That I wasn’t quite
So much time
Time and energy
Trying to tell other people
What they could be
Yeah, well I still try
I try to get it right
But I know there’ll always be
A discrepancy
‘Tween how we wanna be
And how we’re gonna be
And in the end you just gotta
Work with what’s real

There’s a love
In my life
Who understands these things
And I’ve so much yet to learn
From that gentle heart
‘Bout the relief that acceptance brings
I tried so hard
To do right by you
But if you won’t talk to me
There’s only so much that I can do
Coz I’m the kind
Who needs to understand
What you need from me
And what I need from you
And it’s all very well
To huff up and say
That grown-ups shouldn’t
Feel this way
But the point is that we do
We do

How good it is
To walk away
To free myself from all that pain
How good it was
To finally hear you say
What it was about me that
Got in your face
I spat the dummy
You spat chips
Your opinion finally
Passed your lips
We were both wrong
About a lot of things
But at least I finally know
What you really think
And that’s something that
I can work with

Knowledge isn’t kindness
And theories are not wisdom
It’s good to have ideals
But the human heart
It’s a messy thing
It learns like a dog
Like a beaten child
It don’t always listen to your mind
You can try and tell it
It’ll be alright
But that might just take a little time

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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from Monkey Comfort, released July 7, 2003
Vocals, guitar, loop pedal - Penelope Swales
Bass, beatbox - Mal Webb

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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