Ok... This is the first song/poem of any substance that I ever wrote... many of you are already familiar with it, but it seemed appropriate to start at the beginning...
I am of course talking about "Away"...
Click Play to listen as you read along:
AWAY
Have you ever wondered, have you ever cried
Have you ever wanted to but instead just sighed
Cast within the shadow, that’s getting hard to take
Gets tougher every day for me to breathe, to sleep, to wake
What if I called upon the wind, Offered my soul from deep within
Would it pick me up and carry me away?
What am I to do when I’m feeling so unsure
When I have the realization that my mother isn’t pure
Who do I turn to, and who will understand
When the father I’m looking at is now a strange man
What if I called upon the sea, offered the life inside of me
Would it sweep me under and wash away the pain?
I believe that I could fly, beyond the earth, the sea, the sky
Away
The past is all too clear, the future yet unknown
When old scars reappear why can’t I let them go
How about all these choices decisions I must make
What are the implications if I make the same mistakes?
What if I called upon the earth, yield my last breath to the dirt
Would it cover me and shelter me from the rain?
I believe that I could fly, beyond the earth, the sea, the sky
Away
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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
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
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