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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

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(short, plucked scales on guitar)

 

I sat upon a distant shore

What did I believe?

The things I did not think mattered

Meant so much to me

 

I found my life upon that shore

Dusty and diseased

I shied away from everything

The help that I did need

 

(strumming now)

 

It caught me there in chains of gold

A sight I longed to see

The life I had been running from

Finally caught up to me

 

It asked me then in honeyed tones

Why do you run away?

I could not answer - I did not know

Why I had so strayed

 

(up higher now)

 

My prayer heard, my soul was cleared

My strength was found again

The strength that I could never have

The power from my friends

 

I could not live a lonely life

Devoid of love and trust

I shunned my pain and lifted up

A hand to clear the dust

 

(Different pattern than earlier)

Something I needed to feel

Something I needed to free

Something I needed to lose

Something I needed to be

 

(no lyrics for a while, assorted guitar stuff)

 

(switch back to third pattern, higher strumming)

 

And so I made the deadly choice

Something wild and free

A strength so great it filled me up

Something else to be

 

A jar to be filled is all I am

Savoring the feel of free

I thank my lucky stars tonight

To be able to see

 

(switch back to second pattern, lower strumming)

 

This is no joke, this song my friends

It happened once to me

I came away from a life of pain

And lived to still be me

 

The pain is real, the horrid pain

The pain of losing dreams

I once was lost but now I'm found

I found it inside me

 

(switch back to first pattern lower fingerpicking)

 

So no matter how far you fall

You can get back up again

The pain, it hurts - oh how I know

The places I have been

 

But now this song is over friends

The final verse and rhyme

I hope you learned from my dark past

And live to see next time

 

(final strum fades away)

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