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This is It (Don't Get Scared Now)

from Beginning at the Wilderness by Shawnee Kilgore

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That title phrase came to mind one night and it took me a few minutes to remember it was from the movie I have watched more than any other movie in my life - Home Alone. Kevin has the house all ready for the bad guys and the bell chimes 9pm so he grabs his bb gun, pushes himself up against the wall and says, "This is it. Don't get scared now."

I started the song and then craftily tricked Ben Jones from Beat Root Revival into helping me write it. (There are people out there who know I would never sing the world "malaise" of my own accord.) This was the first of many songs we have written together and I'm so grateful to him.

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woke up from a dream
with all the things I was afraid to say
wondering how I managed
to use up all of my rainy days
reading into nothing in particular
can make me crazed
all my inhibitions have me drowning
in my soul’s malaise

this is it
don’t get scared now

trying to remember how it felt
to be alive again
dying to believe I could ever
let the living in
tell me what you did when you
discovered you could disappear
anything can happen when the
color of the air is clear

this is it
don’t get scared now

living off the trials and tribulations
of a broken heart
when will I remember that I’m whole
with just a broken part
looking in the mirror is as hard
as it has ever been
staring down the enemy
when all I really need’s a friend

this is it
don’t get scared now

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from Beginning at the Wilderness, released September 8, 2020
Written by Shawnee Kilgore and Ben Jones

Zachariah Hickman on harmony vocals

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Shawnee Kilgore Austin, Texas

"Shawnee Kilgore is to music as velvet gloves are to diamond cutters,” wrote James Hardesty, owner of the Green Frog Acoustic Tavern in Bellingham, WA. “She holds all this beauty in her hand, raw and untouched, then she chips away until it gleams in the light, holding on with a soft gentleness that she has perfected." ... more

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