Ivy

Here is a special tribute to my good friend Rick Melvin who more than inspired the original version of this song, he lived it. It is a song that has done well for me in years past, and I post it here for those who have never heard it and would like to, and for those who have heard it and wish to enjoy it again. The performance was on a TV show called "Celebrate".




Ivy


Melvin sits in his ivory tower
Looking at the world below
He sits there staring hour by hour
Counting the rings to his soul
The interlocking granite keeps his Eden safe and sound
Cold and grey the wall she made left no doorway to be found

With time love grew on him and shades him from the sun
It wrapped itself around him closer than the wind does
It finds away around is walls until they’d come undone
Love covered him in precious life where beauty never was

Like Ivy

Melvin sits in his ivory tower
In a castle made of stone
He contemplates there hour by hour
His decision to be alone
The interlocking granite keeps his Eden safe and sound
Cold and grey the wall she made left no doorway to be found

With time love grew on him and shades him from the sun
It wrapped itself around him closer than the wind does
It finds away around is walls until they’d come undone
Love covered him in precious life where beauty never was

Like Ivy