So...the writing continues.
Over the last few months I have a few songs that I've picked up and put down...more than a couple times. Now they're finding the light of day and I'm sharing them...
The song below is called Calling Off the Search. There are actually two completely different versions of this song...written from different perspectives. One I hear in my head as an upbeat, declaration about finding love you've been longing for...the second, and the one published below, is about a relationship that ends abruptly with no explanation.
Earlier this year I experienced the second...so that's the one where I devoted the most energy and it's the one that got finished first. When inspiration hits, I'll finish the other.
Until then...I give you...
Calling Off the Search
3/5/09, 3/8/09, 7/31/09, 8/1/09
v1
Tell me, did you run like a thief?
Or like a pilgrim hungry for heaven, craving peace?
Or was it something more like the house was on fire?
The speed in which you ran
Or more along the lines of a summer castle
Made from stolen ocean sand?
Who am I to say?
Who am I to say?
I was just the one you kissed
Yet still not called to be a witness
To your exodus
Chorus
I’m calling off the search
Letting you go to the unknown
I’m calling off the search
Standing tall, if on my own
The could be’s and might’ve been
Unanswered questions, why’s and when’s
Who you were to me
Who you really are
Now I see
So, I’m call of the search for you
And I’m finding me
v2
Convenient, how you play the fence
Not even drowned in silence could it make sense
My heart on mine, your secret fraying from your sleeve
Step just one foot into light
Owning the streets of New York City
The other side of midnight
Who am I to say?
Who am I to say?
I was who took your hand
Though not strong enough to make you a man
Don’t understand
Chorus
Bridge
Left to draw my own conclusions, from the silence
Left to climb out of confusion, from the distance
What is left to say
When you took both yourself and the choice away
To cover your tracks, you buried the clues
But this time, I’m not following you
