I wrote and recorded this track this morning, and would love any additions to it! Just guitar and voice at the moment.
77 BPM, D major (like 10 cents flat).
In every stone
There's a river that's longing for the sea
A million years or more of running wears it down,
Til you can't tell just what they used to be
Maybe they were rough
With jagged edges that'd cut your careless feet to bits
Or flowing curves like little Rocky Mountain ranges
That some gift shop sold as counterfeits
But now they're all the same
And it's easier to walk the banks with how smooth they all became
But I wish I could've seen when they were mountains
Cause all that I see now is just that river that was longing for the sea
When I was young
Everyone asked me what it was that I'd grow up to be
An engineer, or some sort of artist trying to make a life from melodies
I couldn't choose
And I just let that mighty river take me from the shore
Now I can't recall the pretty edges or the rough parts of me anymore
Ain't that a crying shame
But it's easier to fit in
When all the shape are just the same
But I wish that we could live like we were mountains
And step right out of that river that keeps pulling everybody to the sea
As time goes on
Instead of smoothing, we get wrinkles where the body folds
And we turn into living road maps of all the signs of love and life and grief we've ever known
And the stories all end the same
No matter where you been, you'll go right back from where you came
But I hope that when I die, I die a mountain
Just standing rough and lonesome,
By that river that keeps longing for the sea.