The Road
Meant to post this a long time ago, back when I wrote it, but I suppose I forgot…
Song inspired by the book by Cormac McCarty. Read it and weep, if you haven’t already. I’ll post the music to it soon.
“The Road.”
Take my heart, crack it open
Take my body, split it wide.
Take my hands, neatly folded,
Let them flail mad and wild.
Take my words, erase them all,
for what they cannot say.
Take me here, before the Fall
I will not run away
This road may be the death of me
We may not make it child
But I’ll be with you in the threshhold sea–
One day, I’ll see you smile
Take my breath, it isn’t good anymore,
unless it labors with love.
Take my mind, it’s useless paramours,
a swimming pool devoured by the flood.
Let the walls around me tumble down,
Until all I have left, is you.
Take what’s left of this burned out house,
May it warm you, through and through.
This wayward half that’s left of me
Cries only now for peace.
A voice for this silent effigy
that smoulders under the keep.
Well I know it’s only just a song to you,
but to me it is what will come:
Eminate love a thousandfold,
and to you it will return.
This road may be the death of me.
We may not make it, child.
But I’ll be with you in the threshhold sea–
One day I’ll see you smile.
One day I’ll see you smile.
June 10, 2010 at 2:47 pm
[...] to tell the stories of these songs. The Threshhold Sea is a line from one of my songs, “The Road,” which was my reaction to the novel of the same name by Cormack McCarthy. Most of my other [...]