front and center

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got asked to sing a song here at our weekly graduation on thursday (no, i don’t get to graduate yet…). am singing one i wrote a year and a half ago.

(at another treatment center…).

i may have posted these lyrics before; if so, read them again…

pathways

one just like the other / who caught it from their mothers
or maybe from their daddies – no one knows
blame the genes and habits / that multiplied like rabbits
then scattered down the trails where no one goes
now your words remind us / that you would always find us
in the thickets where we liked to hide
cowering in silence / beaten by the violence
that raged beneath the surface deep inside … deep inside

faces getting clearer / end game getting clearer
taking steps behind a trusted guide
outlook surely brighter / burden getting lighter
time to face the troubled world outside
took in others’ knowledge / the ones who’d been to college
and left the school of hard knocks far behind
read the books and listened / to find out what was missin’
in the holes inside our hearts that kept us blind … kept us blind

heaven’s tears kept falling / and the past kept calling
pulling downward like a ball and chain
trapped inside the sorrows / clouding our tomorrows
but holding onto hope that still remained
sparks of life enfolding / the small seed we were holding
set to bloom whene’er the clouds would clear
grateful for each minute / the miracle within it
the perfect love to cast away our fear … our fear

but sometimes we’re forgetting / as the day is setting
that night will only last until the dawn
moon and star reflections / give light to our directions
help us find our way til night is gone
and with the sun to guide us / and with no shame to hide us
we can follow paths that others made
trusting where it leads us / and in the love that freed us
with promises the footprints will not fade
believing that their footprints will not fade
with faith that their steps will not fade … will not fade

copyright 2007 ruckersongs

~ by mikerucker on July 6, 2009.