After All

by Ben O'Neill

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“After All”, the first single from songwriter Ben O’Neill’s Light Vol 1 is a meditation, sincere and transparent, on the challenges common to the human experience. Acoustic, revealing and heartfelt, After All gives us a moment to reconsider where we are, what we’ve come through and how we can move forward with hope and love.

The road of life is a turning path, through lush hills and desolate valleys, with blind corners, unknown plateaus and familiar wildernesses. We meet with questions, temptations, failures and, maybe, just maybe, a chance at redemption. “After All” opens the possibility of looking past the bumps, to the beauty; the chance to begin again.

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After All
Just keep on pushing, you’re almost there,
You’re almost there
Just count the greys on your head
As one piece of evidence that life ain’t fair
‘Cause if was you’d already be dead
Yeah, if it was you’d already be dead

If I had a nickel for ever time I messed up
Every time I messed up
You know I’d be high on the hog
But it just don’t matter how good you’re dressed up
Life run you down like a dog
Yeah, she’ll run you down

We’ve all chosen wrong ‘cause it pleased us
Somehow, afterwords second chances come
Makes me think maybe there’s something ‘bout Jesus
After all, after the fall
After it’s all said and done

Three hundred miles, straight into the wild
Straight into the wild
Just to find out where you’re from
And once you arrive, if you survive
Your choice is the shovel or the gun
Your choice is the shovel or the gun

We’ve all chosen right, though it grieved us
Somehow, afterwords second chances come
Makes me think maybe there’s something ‘bout Jesus
After all, after the fall
After it’s all said and done.

The glittering lights will deceive us
But afterwords second chances come
Makes me think maybe there’s something ‘bout Jesus
After all, after the fall
After it’s all said and done

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released April 20, 2021
Written, performed, produced and recorded by Ben O'Neill (guitar, vocal) with Shane Aaserud (upright).

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Ben O'Neill Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

My name is Ben O'Neill. Music is my life's focus. That takes many forms, from being a sideman to John Legend, Jill Scott and others, to being a teacher at The University of the Arts, to creating my own music to share with you.

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