Words to the Wind
- Genre: Psychedelic
- Time: 07:15
- Released: 7/8/2008
- Label:
- Album: Words to the Wind
- Credits: Carl Edlund Anderson/Darcy Burner/Michael Burner/Michael Donahue/Tania Ruiz
- Artist: Carl Edlund Anderson
- Location: AMERICA SOUTH: Colombia
- Sounds Like: Hard Rock
Song Information:
This is a song I wrote with my first band, Ossian's Ride, and though credited democratically to the whole band, it was basically my music and OR's keyboardist Darcy Burner's words. It's always been one of my favorites, and I even trotted it out an improvised instrumental version when playing guitar in Das Ludicroix's set at the Strange Daze 1999 festival. So I'm pretty pleased to at last be getting a new version of the song put together.
Admittedly, this is a work in progress! The guitar solos were tossed off hastily between mouthfuls of cereal at breakfast, while the (not very good) vocals were quickly slapped down at lunch (while the neighbours were far, far away. ;) But it's a start! :) And I'll see if I can't spruce it up a bit in future ....
Song Lyrics:
What if our yesterdays never became,
Darkness slipped in and stole our voice?
What if the world became always the same,
Never tomorrow, never our choice?
Take breath from body and hope from light.
Take belief from emotion and motion from flight.
When we hang the skies and give words to the wind
How will we know that it's time to begin?
What if the seas filled full with blood?
How would we wash the stains from our hands?
Rain upon skin and the world's great floods
Stealing the bread from the last of our lands.
Take be from existing and shape from form.
Take the flame from the fire and force from the storm.
When we lose the moon and release the sun
How will we know what we have begun?
What if the green which flowed through the leaf
Stopped in our veins and froze in our hearts?
The sound of life stilled in our disbelief;
Silence in pain as our new world starts.
Take guilt from conscience and rhythm from song.
Take naivete from innocence and reason from wrong.
When we stumble in darkness and nature falls dumb,
How will we know what we have become?
What if she judges and what if she knows
How we have robbed her and what we've destroyed?
Time is her ally; its tide overflows
Washing the pestilence into the void.
Take grief from destruction and sorrow from pain.
Take the balance from weighing and renewal from rain.
When the piper is paid at the end of the song,
How will we know where our world has gone?
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