Name: States Apart
Duration: P00H04M12S
Description: Owen Kortz was also inspired to write States Apart by “the ashes of a relationship a year ago that represented everything I was looking for, and then just crumbled and crashed to the ground. The song is about letting go of what I thought love was supposed to be, letting some of that die in a sad but beautiful way, and how that is reborn with a new concept of love and relationship.”

States Apart

from Listening Now by Owen Kortz

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Owen Kortz was also inspired to write States Apart by “the ashes of a relationship a year ago that represented everything I was looking for, and then just crumbled and crashed to the ground. The song is about letting go of what I thought love was supposed to be, letting some of that die in a sad but beautiful way, and how that is reborn with a new concept of love and relationship.”

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You have your road
Solid line has been paved
And it’s hard as the asphalt
That you ain’t going my way

We shared a good hundred miles
The sun shined on us soft
We’re going different directions
But I’m grateful we crossed

Said I’m here for your soul
That’s what I meant from the start
Would be true in your arms
Or in these states apart

Your thumb was up to catch a ride
To get you where you had to be
But you were my destination
And what you love you must set free

CHORUS

It’s a long, lonely highway
Stretches out before my eyes
But I know it’s where I need to go
Won’t forget what’s behind
Oh, what’s left behind

CHORUS

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from Listening Now, released December 10, 2016
Owen Kortz

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Owen Kortz Denver, Colorado

Owen Kortz is an award-winning songwriter from Denver, Colorado. He is a founding member of the Singer/Songwriter Program and LYNX National Arts and Media Camps at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is on faculty.

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