Monday, May 11, 2009
Guiding Me
I woke up with this song in my head last week. Not that I don't believe there's a God. I sure as heck do. But he describes well a gritty dark but honest perspective; one that is very familiar to me right now.
David Gray is one of those singer/songwriters who knows where it's at. Him and Leonard Cohen and Martyn Joseph come to mind right now.
Ain't No Love
Maybe that it would do me good
If I believed there were a God
Out in the starry firmament
As it is that’s just a lie
And I'm here eating up the boredom
On an island of cement
Give me your ecstasy I'll feel it
Open window and I'll steal it
Baby like it’s heaven sent
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
Some days i'm bursting at the seams
With all my half remembered dreams
And then it shoots me down again
I feel the dampness as it creeps
I hear you coughing in your sleep
Beneath a broken window pane
Tomorrow girl I'll buy you chips
A lollipop to stain your lips
And it’ll all be right as rain
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
No it ain’t no love guiding me
No it ain’t no love guiding me
No it ain’t no love guiding me
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
On winter trees the fruit of rain
Is hanging trembling in the branches
Like a thousand diamond buds
Waiting there in every pause
That old familiar fear that claws you
Tells you nothing ain’t no good
Pulling back you see it all
Down here so laughable and small
Hardly a quiver in the dirt
This ain’t no love that’s guiding me
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2 comments:
Hi,
Just catching up with your blog. Did you go to California? How exciting!
Annie
Hope you continue to feel Him guiding you! I love you...
Tamara
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