Play the song. Read the words. “I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws. Let me write its songs.” -Aristotle
If I had to pick just one song that I felt encapsulated the way I felt growing up… this would be it.
I’m so alive
I’m so enlightened
I can barely survive
A night in my mind
I’ve got a [...]
I am solo in this world of water
Only the tip of a sunrise visible
Like the morning light in a little girls eyes
I crave this freedom
I find it only in this little ship
Just my soul and this bread and butter
I am comfortable
But there is a treason at sea
Is it me?
It is a wonder, supernatural cover of [...]
(written in a Vietnam shell hole)
Lord God I have never spoken to you,
Now I want to say how do you do?
You see God they told me you didn’t exist,
And like a fool I believed all this.
Last night from a shell hole I saw your sky,
I figured right then they had told me a lie.
Had I [...]
Play the song. Read the words. “I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws. Let me write its songs.” -Aristotle
Any minute now, my ship is coming in
I’ll keep checking the horizon
I’ll stand on the bow, feel the waves come crashing
Come crashing down down down, on me
And you say, be still my love
Open up [...]
When God wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man,
And skill a man
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects!
How He hammers [...]
