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The Hero's Journey

by Paul Weinfield

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"The Hero's Journey" is a song about the most heroic task of all: self-acceptance.

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THE HERO’S JOURNEY

Forty years, come and gone so fast.
Now your dreams only make you sad.
The marriage failed and the agent quit.
No one seemed to want the gifts you had.

Life will humble you
and leave you pleading
with a bleeding tongue.
Don’t try to push on through.
Sit still in the morning sun.

And bow down to whatever comes.
Bow down to whatever comes.
Bow down to whatever comes.

Who was it you once thought you’d be?
The Comeback Kid or some storybook prince?
Or St. George in the dragon’s jaws?
You didn’t know the dragon always wins.

Life will humble you
and close the curtain
with your song unsung.
Don’t try to push on through.
Sit still when the day is done.

And bow down to whatever comes.
Bow down to whatever comes.
The evening news and the traffic’s hum.
Bow down to whatever comes.

Give up the difference between you and them.
Give up the difference between now and when.
Give up the feeling of falling behind.
Hold it all with a spacious mind.

Greyhound back to your hometown.
No one meets you at the station there.
It’s 5am. Your old house is gone.
Lost souls are rising through the air.

But life will let you in
the very moment
that you let it move on,
a new-born child again,
wide-eyed in the blue-black dawn.

Bow down to whatever’s gone.
Bow down to whatever’s gone.
The red bike on the summer lawn.
The prom queen with the choker on.
Kurt Cobain and Donkey Kong.
And all the ways that it came out wrong.
And all the ways you could not be strong.
And all the ways you could not belong.
Bow down, bow down, bow down.
Bow down to whatever’s gone.

Words and music copyright of Paul Weinfield/Tam Lin Music Publishing (BMI, 2023)

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released October 13, 2023
Paul Weinfield: all vocals, songwriting, and instruments

Recorded by Craig Levy at Little Pioneer Studios, NYC

Mixed and mastered by Roman Klun

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Paul Weinfield New York, New York

Paul Weinfield is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author, and meditation teacher whose songs have been compared to those of Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and hailed by No Depression magazine as "unafraid of music boundaries." He is currently working on his eleventh album, As Long As It Takes. ... more

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