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# Lyrics For a Story (In progress)
- URL: https://matthew-d-burkholder.ghost.io/lyrics-for-a-story-in-progress/
- Published: 2012-11-30T03:45:00.000Z
- Updated: 2012-11-30T03:45:00.000Z
- Author: Matthew D. Burkholder
- Tags: Art, #Migrated-1787946130805, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-28 15:42

These are some lyrics that I have been working with off and on for a year or so now. The music is written, and I would like to finish it in the near future. 
  
  
**message from a bed**

the sheets are getting cold

washed and separated, placed into a fold

memory is getting dim

fading thoughts, wrestle you back to him

but yours is a story of *hope*

beyond the hurting soul

  
**good mourning man**

i've seen darkness, in the absence of breath

and lonely lovers silence

i've heard mourning, when a son is gone

i've rarely... felt... you...

  
(and the scoffers are cutting lines and holding time just to pass me by.

and i'm waiting to see who will win the fight and i'm waiting to see who gets drunk tonight and

when morning comes i remind myself, grace is sold at a price)

  
which one has saving faith? which one is saving face?

and what does one do, when the world's soul runs dry?

but this is the season of the rising tide... (man)

  
**the courtroom**  
he whispers a prayer, into thin air  
"I know that we look the same,  
*they* caught that bastard, a long time ago..."  
(I swear, I swear)  
  
"I never thought I'd see it"  
"the papers never lie"  
"that preachers little boy is gonna.."  
  
fry, fry, fry  
  
they took him to a courtroom  
and laid out the case  
and three judges threw up their arms  
and cried a foul disgrace  
"walk free, it's free, you're free"  
  
"I never thought I'd see it"  
"the papers never life"  
"that preachers little boy should..."  
  
fry, fry, fry  
  
**saint john**

your love is like a shadow

long cast against the wall

in the light i see you

in the darkness you fall 

  
**message from a lonely person**

waiting by my bed for you

i lost everything i knew

are you coming home, real soon?

my dear, is that who you are?

we broke the sun (murdered the one)

farewell
  
  
It needs some work, but I'm hoping I can develop some more characters soon.