Through A Different Lens

from The World Is Your Pearl by B & Company

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lyrics

Through A Different Lens

Confined by a skeletal construct
that keeps my muscles moving,
with ligaments and "tendon-cies"
to pull back when struck at.

Though, the love, it surrounds me,
I am stricken and lonely
like the tree that falls victim to gravity,
but is heard by nobody at all.

And you’ll be so very happy
right where you fall.

Gentle hands cup this anchored heart,
the weight of such is unbearable.
My mind’s off running, but please,
don’t come tumbling after,
because I promise you,
you’ll never stumble faster
than when you jump without looking.

I fear I’m falling forward too fast for my feet to find the ground again,
confounded by momentum kept from motives only found in men.
I’m down to send a picture to you,
of me when I was ten,
so that you can see my inner-child smile
when viewed through a different lens

And I’ll look so very happy

I’ll know I've lost the ability to love when my tear-ducts lay empty,
dried up and shriveled where rivers used to strive
and project rippling shadows cast in the Sun’s holy image.
The dust, it will settle when true light has surfaced.
You’ll find that you,
to me my dear,
will remain absolutely perfect.

credits

from The World Is Your Pearl, released September 27, 2013
Brandon "B" Barker: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Harmonica
Daniel Hansen: Drums
Louis Alexander: Banjo