live within your story

If I'm driving eight hours,
you know I'm headed north.
I might add another eight there,
back to the place of my birth.
To those I love, to those we left, 
am I who I could have been
should have been?

I remember the days when you held me close.
All the love and the kindness you sheltered me.
From my dreams I'd awake
through every move I would make.
How could everyday take use closer
to goodbye? When there's...

So many stories living here beneath these keys.
Matters of the heart
such angst could drive a man straight to his knees.
Yet so much love still breathes,
and all that pain really needs,
is a place,
a place to heal,
and live within your story.

Been starving for a melody,
to write a song upon.
We all want some fiction
some fairytale.
No resentment no hurt
just good intentions,
but they always leave you thinking,
thinking...
Leaves you thinking thinking...
Leaves you thinking thinking...

Are you the one that got away? No.
I'm the one that ran away. 
Always wondering where we'd be,
had you caught up with me.
There's...

So many stories living here beneath these keys.
Matters of the heart
such angst could drive a man straight to his knees.
Yet so much love still breathes,
and all that pain really needs,
is a place,
a place to heal,
and live within your story.

 

behind the song

This is the song about all songs.  So many stories to be told and a lifetime just isn't long enough to tell them all, or in this case write them all. The lead piano melody reminds me of tires in motion on a car headed for an adventure. My daughter likes to dance around to this one.