Subject: Lyr Add: THE LIFE (Stephen Fearing)
From:
Clinton Hammond2
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 03:09 PM
The Life
Stephen Fearing All the faces are engaged tonight
The Conversations taken
The singer on the bandstand
Has a voice so close to breaking
Pulling songs from a guitar
Dark with nicotine and time
And a sunburst top
That sets against the evening
And the show business officials
Turn a deaf ear to the stage
Their hears are locomotives
And their minds are narrow gauge
You can hate this way of living
You've gotta love this way of life
Creativity and ambition
Will keep you hungry
A life of empty boxes
Rented rooms and hired cars
And the eyes that turn to watch you
In those little mesh-back bars
Midnight buses on the prairies
People curled inside themselves
So many things to feel
And nobody to tell
So you pick up your guitar
And play it for yourself
These days you only play it seems
For everybody else
Pull the strings into your hands
Hold the wood against your hips
Unwind the miles of silence
From your fingers
Tonight the songs are lost
Among the cartwheel chandeliers
The microphone is old
It tastes like bitterness and beer
Lyrics sink into the bottles
And the music disappears
You're thinking about where you'll be
Tomorrow
Where the faces turn to listen
and the energy shifts and moves
Your voice goes reaching over
All the people in the room
Put your body to the rhythm
Roll the wheel into the road
Let the moment lift your heart
And make it easy
Put your body to the rhythm
Roll the wheel into the road
Let the moment lift your heart
And make it easy
Make it easy
Make it easy... I was inspired to post this by the thread asking after rehearsal times, cause this goes through my head every time I rehearse...
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sj
