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This song meets Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov in the epilogue of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov is in prison after confessing to the murder of a swindling old pawnbroker and her sweet, innocent half-sister. He had attempted the perfect crime and would have succeeded, had he not confessed in a moment of weakness. Now he is forever trapped in his own humanity―trapped in regular relationships with regular people. All hope of greatness has been lost.

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I was almost great once―
Almost rose above the law;
I towered over smaller minds, rose higher and higher and I
Nearly overtook the sun

And there my waxen wings melted away
And down I fell in shame
I sought my end, that crooked grace to pain,
Oh, but try as I might, still I found
My weakness sentenced me to life


And now I find I have nothing to my name but me
And I realize it was grace that brought me back
To all this beautiful banality
A new dawn rises soft into the winter chill of summer morn
Waking everything to life once more

There will be great striving on the road ahead―
More than time allows to tell
But the story is yours now
Make it a good one, eh?
It’s the perfect day to change your world
It’s the only day you have


Well this story is ours now
You and I here at the end of us and the beginning of forever’s song
This story is ours now
So, allons-y

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from Epilogue: The Bienvenu Stories, released July 29, 2017
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daniel couper - Vocals, Piano

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Words & music by daniel couper
Produced, mixed, and engineered by daniel couper
Recorded at Hopwood Christian Church

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The Kept Collective is a group of independent artists (musicians, dancers, poets, and playwrites) tucked away in the Northeast corner of Tennessee looking to make the world a more thoughtful, hopeful, and beautiful place.

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