Once In A While

A darker tune from the 2025 album Quarter To Sunrise that deals with the subject of estrangement after closeness. Song written, performed and recorded by Jason Allen. ONCE IN A WHILE Who am I? Place your bets Work it out And make your first approach Use your voice That's the point Because we've been here before Here before We're near sometimes Once in a while You and me stood between These walls we once built With bare hands and pure guilt No retreat, no escape No easy way out Of this place that we've made If we crash land in a darker place We'll need to see the sunlight on our face And if I find freedom once again I'll be there when the bell sounds And this town is gone We'll leave here before we're done Once in a while This much will be done Stranded in the middle of a darker place We'll need to feel the sunlight on our face And we can find freedom when we run Both of us still know this much Once in a while Once in a while This much will be done All I've got is this picture of you in a frame In a box upon my shelf And all I need is this thing you can bring And we've been there before