This Blinding Light (song #126)

This Blinding Llight 

This blinding light

Is the only spark I see

Clearing the distance

Between you and me

The shadows cannot stop me now

These open arms

Are all I can feel

Bringing me back

To what I know is real

The chains cannot hold me down

Your (this?) love is a magnet to (for?) your heart

Pulling me in from the very start

And as I get lost inside you and me

This (your?) (blinding) light is all I see

This grateful dream

Is all I can view

Moving my feet

Back to you

The path cannot lead me wrong

Your (this?) love is a magnet to (for?) your heart

Pulling me in from the very start

And as I get lost inside you and me

This (your?) (blinding) light is all I see

Everything comes from something else

But sometimes things are born of themselves

The head can think too much looking for control

But the heart searches for the unconditional

Your (this?) love is a magnet to (for?) your heart

Pulling me in from the very start

And as I get lost inside you and me

This (your?) (blinding) light is all I see

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell
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Go (song #125)

Go

Oh-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to let

Go?-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to go?

A simple post upon a message board

Takes me back to a time when you knew what life was for 

A face, a name, the memories of times gone by

Now a loss, a long and unexpected goodbye

Oh-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to let

Go?-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to go?

So many moments in isolation

Passing us by and our complications 

Hindsight's 20/20 but it's just not the same

Win or lose the score doesn't (can't?) tell you who won the game

Oh-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to let

Go?-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to go?

I’m only left with this heavy heart

I don’t know where to begin much less how to start

I can only now recall your moving art

Now it seems you only get to go so far

You’re going (you've gone?) so far

Away

Oh-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to let

Go?-whoa-whoa

Why do we have to go?

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell
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Tell You Why (song #124)

Tell You Why

The fuse is lit and I don’t know what set the spark

I cannot recall what got me to this dark

Place I seem to go when I run the steps

I seem to catch myself just before the edge

The candle burns but I don’t hold the flame

Sometimes I swear it’s just an endless game

I play when I believe that there’s no one there

When I believe that no one’s gonna care

I cannot tell you why I fly so high

I cannot tell you why I have to keep moving

I cannot tell you why I cannot wait for you

I cannot tell you why 

I cannot tell you why

A moment comes as a (simple) push to the brink

I am forced to choice between feel and think

Through the course I that lies ahead for me to take

My will can bend and in the end it might (even) break

I cannot tell you why I fly so high

I cannot tell you why I have to keep moving

I cannot tell you why I cannot wait for you

I cannot tell you why 

I cannot tell you why

See the line

As it passes by

A perfect fit

As I step over it

The rush is gone (but) the feeling lingers

Like endless grains of sand through fingers

Still nothing is really there to hold

As questions eclipses all that I know

I cannot tell you why I fly so high

I cannot tell you why I have to keep moving

I cannot tell you why I cannot wait for you

I cannot tell you why 

I cannot tell you why

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell
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Let Me Go (song #123)

Let Me Go

Holding nothing quite so sacred 

As the time when we're apart

So long as there is distance

You can give your heart 

You used to want to be with me

No matter what the cost

Now every time I'm reaching out

It's clear that feeling's lost

Oh - Oh - Oh

You let me go

No - No - No

Don't  let me go

You let me go

I used to know the problem's me

But you were holding on

Now it seems I'm in the clear

How could I be so wrong?

Nothing takes away the sting

Like a brand new cut

I was trying to hold on

Now I am wondering for what

Oh - Oh - Oh

You let me go

No - No - No

Don't  let me go

You let me go

Now every word tears us further apart

Every moment just breaks my heart  

 

Oh - Oh - Oh

You let me go

No - No - No

Don't  let me go

You let me go

© 2014 by Richard Maxwell
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