Simply Yourself

drorkessler

A song about vanity and how it can drive one to a false sense of supremacy and righteousness … and how the simplicity of the forces of nature can challenge this predicament …

I’ve been messing with the scale and tempo of this tune for the past days … so this time, you get to hear it in Dm … hope you like it … lyrics below:

You think your love is something so unique
That you can gather all the pieces as you leave
Spice them and up and serve them on the side
While you, the main dish, never have to slide

You think that happiness is dumb-found and blind
Down at the corner it is paddling up for dimes
You think you’re king-pin of all that is fine
A masterpiece in making, a tantalizing prime

[chorus]
Still you’re chilled by the sounds a young baby crying
You’re fearful of storms and of the moon rising
So basic your failure to stand … on your own

To learn how to walk with no shoes without whining
To stand in the wind with no coat and be smiling
To feel young and whole …. for simply being yourself

So with all false force you master up the pride
Exposing teeth where kissing lips abide
Revenging demolitions brought up by the cure
Investing all your time in figments so obscure

[chorus]
Still you’re chilled by the sounds a young baby crying
You’re fearful of storms and of the moon rising
So basic your failure to stand … on your own

To learn how to walk with no shoes without whining
To stand in the wind with no coat and be smiling
To feel young and whole …. for simply being yourself

[c part]
Warm voices are calling your home
Your dad keeps on dialing you, pick up the phone
Still your pain keeps on echoing strong, like a drone

The charge in your fists it is real, you believe
To wipe out the deeds with a blow, you conceive
Still your fear keeps you locked up and chilled … all alone

But may one day you’ll wake up in a storm
Your baby crying, your wife is not at home
Your bare feet stepping on wooden floor
Will spell you forgiveness to your very own

[chrous mod]
Then you won’t be so chilled by the sound of the crying
You won’t be so fearful of storms and moon rising
You’ll be on your own, and still … you’ll feel warm

You’ll walk with no shoes alone with your darling
You’ll stand in the wind with no coat and be smiling
And you will feel young and whole … for simply being yourself