"The Silver Lining" (#444, 210306)

 * Co-written with Mark Anderson / @mark-anderson-474835928 * 

Half the prayer on earth lives in hospitals and prisons
Guess that's what it takes to get soul to listen
A simple conversation can break your heart in two
Funny how we learn to love what we're just about to lose

Doesn't matter who or why it hurts to say goodbye
But even then it's sometimes been a blessing in disguise
Every season I been seein' more and more examples
Life's for livin' and we ain't given more than we can handle

Like hot and cold like salt and pepper
Oh God sure knows how to weave it all together
I can make a plan but I gotta' trust His timing
And find the silver lining

You know that moment when you wake up from a dream
Ain't awake ain't still sleepin' you're somewhere in between
Damn near twenty years I walked around like that
Couldn't see the forest through the trees the good inside the bad

Like hot and cold like salt and pepper
Oh God sure knows how to weave it all together
I can make a plan but I gotta' trust His timing
And find the silver lining

Movin' on when someone's gone is something you can't measure
Holdin' hands or golden bands nothing lasts forever
Wasn't always pretty but it made me who I am
I think I understand

Week 10a - The Silver Lining (210306)

My father bought my mother a beautiful ring in the early 1980's.
It is very much like a famous Royal engagement ring of the times.
My mothers ring was well loved in a long and happy marriage. I don't think the other ring was so lucky.

The Ring

by Kent Aitken and David & Laurie Easterling © March 11, 2021 Charlottetown, Canada, and Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Mars was rising as the sun went down
I sat waiting waiting for the sound
Of your piano through the walls every night 
And I pick my guitar by candlelight 

At first I hated these thin apartment walls
And the noise echoing down the halls
Slamming doors, lovers’ quarrels, footsteps, and doorbell rings
at 8:08 sweet piano strings

Play me a song
And I’ll play along
All I want to do 
Is accompany you
Play me a song
And I’ll play along
All I want you to do 
Is play me another song

It gets me through my toughest times
When you stopped, mid-song, at 9:09
I was scared I’d never hear you again
A blue songbird with a broken wing 

Sun rises and sets but your silence remains
Toughest of times lead to darkest of days
Learned your songs, got them wrong, my old guitar, with worn-out strings
When I played at 8:08 I heard you sing

Play me a song
And I’ll sing along
All I want to do 
Is accompany you
Play me a song
And I’ll sing along
In time and in tune   

Play me another song

Play Me A Song (w/ David and Laurie Easterling) - Song a Week 2021, Week 10

Shoes Untied
by Erin Wolf, Laurie & David Easterling © 3/122020 Little Chute, WI and Oak Ridge, TN

Week 10 Prompt: Foundations
*Disclaimer: The following tune is a song about grief and may cause some strong emotional responses in listeners.*

The horizon’s blue
Not a cloud in the sky
I think I see heaven
You’re not by my side
Yesterday you were with me
For life’s wild ride
I stand here alone
Raindrop in my eye

The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   
The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   

The music plays 
I hear the sound
It doesn’t move me
Like when you were around 
I used to stand
On solid ground  
‘Til shifting sands
Knocked me down

Sitting here for hours with my shoes untied
They keep sayin’ it’ll be alright
But I can’t find any hope tonight 

The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need restoration   
The earth is shaking
My firm foundation
My heart is breaking
I need...

Shoes Untied

The fourth tale of Snow and Cherry

Unrepaired

don't confuse yourself
with the things once said
that was long ago
when we were young and fool

you were right but wrong
lovers kiss friends don't
so you cut me out
but the doubt remained

cuz you couldn't love me back
when I cared
and i tried a thousand times
to no avail
so we went our ways
and now I’m afraid
some things are better unrepaired

we all got regrets
you were one of them
but you don't get the right
into my life again

Unrepaired

capo 3

A m             G.              D/F#
1.Let’s get back to basics
G.            D/F#.      Em
Can  we start again
Build a new foundation
G.     D/F# em.          C
Like we only just met 
2.I’ll Laugh at your old  jokes 
Like they’re new to me
You ll be sweet
And charming 
We'll spend days by the sea 

3.I’ll try and watch all the football games
You’ll sip Licorice tea 
I’ll even  learn the  players names
You’ll collect sea shells with me

CHORUS
C.                                          G.     EM
Well not speak of what ever then went wrong 
C.                                 G.                                  D
We wont dredge up the thoughts of the past 
C.                             D                  EM.             G
We will dream of golden days and all that's to come 
C.                              D.                 EM
 Lay down those  old  lies at last

BRIDGE
EM                                   G
You’ll put up with my anxious heart
C
adrift on the waves
              G
And the salt spray of life
We walk on now not torn apart
C
From shadows and caves into the bright light

week 10 foundations- song a week

Bukowski (Modest Mouse cover)

The best was one
Til I met you
Uh huh

Now there’s two
And I can’t be 
Without you

I figured you out
Pulled up to your house
Said your piece, ask me to leave
regret us now

Asking more of me
Asking this or him or me
I don’t wanna think

Oh love, oh love
Don’t make go alone
Oh love, oh love
Don’t make go alone

Maybe on Jay Street
She’ll be there waiting
For me instead of the trains that pass by
Were out too late, and you made wait
Now were taking the local line

The love of a lifetime
Off to the wayside
We had to cut ties
I’ll see you in Bedstuy
You were out too late, you made me wait
Now were taking the local line

Oh love, oh love
Don’t make go alone
Oh love, oh love
Don’t make go alone

Love of a Lifetime (voice memo)

A song about a break up that isn't going well

On My Side

"(You Could Turn Back But) Why Would You Want To" (#442, 210226)

 * co-written with Rob Lannan * 

Morning air smells like your perfume
Layin' sleepless in my bedroom
Day is fadin' to a full moon
Feels like a perfect time to lose you

From Hawaii to the bayou
We ain't shinin' like the stars do
Spark is burnin' out between me and you
Gone as midnight in the afternoon

Won't forget these moments with you
But what's been done baby we can't undo
Open up the goodbye door and walk on through
You could turn back but why would you want to

Drew my smile on like a cartoon
We can't change who we turn into
Engine all but runnin' on fumes
Close as hand grenades and horseshoes

Won't forget these moments with you
But what's been done baby we can't undo
Open up the goodbye door and walk through
You could turn back but why would you want to

We gave up there's no shame
Can't light a candle in the pourin' rain
I'm just gonna' say it I think we always knew
Someone had to walk away it might as well be you

[ image credit: "freepik", which I assume is just a ... pik? That is free? See link below, or I mean, don't, w/e ]

www.freepik.com/free-photo/close-up-candle-rain_2231309.htm

Week 09 - (You Could Turn Back But) Why Would You Want To (210226)

"Fountains Foundations & Frontiers" (#443, 210305)

Concrete in the mixer spinning round and round
Two by fours in ditches dug into the ground
Sweat rolls down the faces squinting in the sun
At what they created in a cloud of dust

Sculpture in the center posing with a dove
Shaded by the shelter of cirrus clouds above 
Fishes in the water frozen as the sky
Waiting on the winter underneath the ice

Modern man must imitate the screen 
Even if we don't know what it means
On the edge we stare at the abyss
And wonder who made this

Somewhere in the desert where there they built no road
Is my buried treasure that's where I will go
Leave behind this palace let this place decay
Find myself a cabin dream the days away

Week 10b - Fountains Foundations & Frontiers (210305)

Nashville songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Godin Guitars Official Artist and Founder of www.songaweek.org.

His catalog of 500+ titles includes collaborations with hit writers Mark Narmore, Elliott Park, Steve Dean, and Pete & Pat Luboff, among others internationally from England to Australia.

Redding's music has landed cuts by numerous recording artists including Dan Whitehouse, Emma Gale, and David Easterling.

Week 10b - Fountains Foundations & Frontiers (210305)

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