Better Off Here

from Options - B-sides & Demos by Glen Phillips

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lyrics

I had a lot that I thought I needed but
I'd give it up for you, give you all I got
It's time that I know it,
Packed up and I'm going

Back to where I came from
The place I got my name from
Though it won't be the same as it was in those years
I'm better off here

There's nothing wrong with the places I've been in
Nothing better, they're just a little different
But somethings missing, it wasn't really living
Won't miss the rush, the complication
I want the hush, the quiet inspiration
It's my life and I know it
I'm getting out and I'm going

Back to where I came from
Tlace I got my name from
Though it won't be the same as it was in those years
I'm better off here
It can't be the same as it was in those years
I'm better off here

What did you want me to be
It won't make a differance
It's not important to me
It won't make a differnance
And you can have your little world
But I'm finally clear I'm better off here

I had a lot I thought that I needed
Gave it up, now I'm leaving
It's my life and I know it
I'm getting out and I'm going

Back to where I came from
Tlace I got my name from
Though it won't be the same as it was in those years
I'm better off here
It can't be the same as it was in those years
I'm better off here

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from Options - B-sides & Demos, released November 2, 2014

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Apr 18

Seascape

Miramar Beach, FL
Apr 21

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club

Santa Barbara, CA
May 2

Alberta Rose Theatre

Portland, OR
May 3

The Triple Door

Seattle, WA
May 4

The Saphire Room At The Riverside Hotel

Boise, ID
May 18

Lost Chord Guitars

Solvang, CA
Jul 19

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Novato, CA
Jul 20

HopMonk Tavern - Novato

Novato, CA

discography

There Is So Much Here

Nov 2022
Swallowed by the New (Deluxe Edition)

May 2018
Options - B-sides & Demos

Nov 2014
Coyote Sessions

Sep 2012
All I Want (Garrison Starr)

Dec 2011
Secrets of the New Explorers

Mar 2008
Unlucky Seven

Mar 2006
Mr. Lemons

May 2006
Live at Largo

May 2003
Abulum

Jan 2002
Glen Phillips Sampler

Oct 2009
Tornillo

Dec 2010
Shackleton Remix by GP

Nov 2010
Little Bunny Foo Foo

Oct 2008
The Next Day

Dec 2011

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