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‘I May Have to Leave You’ is the third single lifted from A MILLION WAYS TO DIE’s 2025 album ‘What Lies Beneath’.
I’ve lived in this city my whole damn life
I’m battered and hardened but sharp as a knife
The lost city I love but so many despise
there’s no in-between in a city like ours
With the fumes in my veins and the tar underfoot
With the trees and the pavements and the crisp morning breeze
And the flickering lights and the shots in the night
With the grinning skyline with fangs that bite
And the screams and the bangs and the sirens and fights
The hooting and swearing and potholes and shite
The thin, thin air and the barking of dogs
The winter mist and the frost on the ground
To balmy days and the New York sunsets
The green of the trees in the forest we made
But I may have to leave you, I may have to go
But I may have to leave you, I may have to go
The poorest of poor, and the richest of men
Who live with the love and the hatred and fear
Who live more in a day than most do in a month
They’re the people I love in this city of mine
This feels like a breakup, and it’s not what I want
It’s not you, it’s me, and it’s a hard thing to fight
Things are out of control, and I have to move on
I’m doubting myself, but I know that I must
So I may have to leave, things are falling apart
I know I’ll be back soon, with my hand on my heart
I’ve been blessed and devoured by that soul of yours
I’ve been torn up and broken by the lessons you’ve taught
I don’t know what I’ll do for my daily fix
Of the taste of the city that runs through my veins
It’s been my home and my life for sixty odd years
And try as I will, I’ll never get rid of you
Because you’re a part of my blood, and a part of my life
It’ll stay in my psyche, it’ll be with me tonight
Like a dog with a bone, or a light in the night
I’ll miss you and feel you, in the pavements I’ll walk
But I may have to leave you, I may have to go
But I may have to leave you, I may have to go
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE:
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE is a collaboration between Rob Mc Lennan and Dave De Vetta, originally from legendary South African band No Friends of Harry. Through exploration and via the new tech available, Dave, who lives in Edinburgh and Rob in Johannesburg, managed find a way to create music together again. Through much experimentation, they created, recorded, and produced the songs from their first EP from their respective home studio’s in South Africa and Scotland, usually meeting up over Zoom every Friday evening to assess over a bottle of tequila.
And so the A MILLION WAYS TO DIE journey continues with eight more songs and a new album ‘What Lies Beneath’, with the release of the duo’s third track and video taken from the new record.
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