“OK, about the music: As far as I know, it is not genre specific and does not fit into any label. If you know of one, or think differently, — run it by me, I’d love to know. No one particular song is my sound. I think it would take someone ten to twenty songs to “get” to know me. However, I am told that once someone has listened, they know me when they hear me and if they like me, well, they like me (my music, songs, lyrics). All of my songs, past, present and future as far as I am able are all based up real life events and people. Some early songs were simply prayers, — turned into a song. I think many “blues”, “r&b” songs were heartfelt angst, joy, love, hate expressed unashamedly musically, and so are mine.
I like a song when/while I am actually singing it, however, usually not when listening to it, — well, initially after writing it. In the long run I love listening to my own music. (I do have my favorite other bands and talents that I follow.) I have a hard time picking my own “good songs”. Fortunately, I have enough folks who like my music to let me know. Often, songs I would have thrown away, are the most loved by others, — go figure. However too, occasionally there is one or two I really like and that is the reaction that I as well get, — yeah! I’ve never experienced any shortage for anything to write about, — the morning-mourning news is a full trough of ideas the beginning of every new day. I write songs, engage music and people who authentically engage music because it is a heart felt passion, — I have done, do it now, and will do it within whatever future I may have from/for this passion.”
lyrics
Walking, One Knight, ustaknow 2018
Am // // Em // //
Am
Walking, one knight, in the lights night dark
Em
I met with Christ, walking this part
Am
He was wrapped quite tight, in stained white sheets
Em
Red blue, wet bright, -- just, right news
Chorus:
F Am Em
He gave // // [Aww..] he gave
F Am Em
He gave me a way, way to be free
Am // //
A way to be free ... ... ...
He said to me, take cover now
Don't ask why, just pull my hem
Tight then slack, and no pain to me
Back like new I was covered by torn
[Ch]
Walking this night, in this fights dark
I saught no thing, no solace, none
My short walk gave long one free thread
And with bread for the quick, since the dead don't
[2nd Ch]
Am
need // // [silence]
Em Am Em
Don't need..., they don't need... they don't need...
The storms not seen, it came indeed
And met with me, now hanging by this thread
Of undead truth, tight white stained red [Am]
Proofed my blood, mixed with his, still living with dread
[3rd Ch]
F Am // Em //
But he gave ... he gave ...
F Am Em Em sus open
he gave me ... a way... a way to be free
// // // [Am] Am sus
A way to be free ... ... ...
It shatters me this message, within a knock
Of life and death, and sweet and sour docks
Of many chrome locks of paper chained parts
Put on the water, for a long dry park
[4th Ch]
Am Em Am Em
He gave... ... ... me He gave me ... a way to be free
F Am Em F Am Em Am
He gave... he gave, he gave me a way, way to be free way to be free
This walk on water, set adrift I see
And take no quarter, only take a knee
Covered by a thread of red white and blue
Stained white sheet, of Holy Spirit clues
Am Em Am Em
He gave ... he gave me ... Oh he gave, me a way to be free
F Am Em F Am Em
He gave... aww he gave .... he gave me a way to be free
Am
Way to be free...
credits
from THREE [5090~2018], released August 31, 2018 license
all rights reserved
credits
from Songladder January 2019,
released December 28, 2018
written by and all instruments and voice. are ustaknow
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