Revisiting old songs and found lyrics I hadn't recorded
Here's the original recording, which didn't include the singing as I wasn't confident my voice could carry the melody.
Yesterday I rewrote the verses after the chorus and created a new backing track, so that I can include the song on my next album: SING.
Someone once said that time is like a river
because even if you stand in the flow
you just can’t go
back to that sliver of river again
My father likes to say that time is the fourth dimension
as everything exists in at least four ways
height, width, depth and when
then again
I think everything exists in history
whether it’s the thoughts of you or me while we all breathe
it’s context bringing us together
and then
it’s times like these that we share more than the air
because no one really cares how much you know
until they know how much you care
so share
Light fades from day
Time runs away
These words are past their date to use
even if I could choose
to stay with you
Don’t think I recognised the window in your chest
now there’s a tightness in my throat
describing letters that you wrote
and the beating of my heart is on my breath
It’s not like we’re alike in not liking
the same kind of times
as though they were different lives
our stars will align to glow in their sign again
The moral of the story is it’s a moral story
that’s now cliched and boring
put to music I’m performing
filling the air that we share with my care
Knowing the movement of the stars feels like a kind of curse
but when the power comes along
I can right this minor wrong
let’s put the universe into reverse with song
Day forms from light
shadows hiding night
intentions on new moon
taking form in verse and tune
our time passed too soon
