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Weathering the Storm

from Making Friends with Ghosts by Kristen Leigh

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Pink sky in the morning,
didn't catch the warning.

Never in my wildest dreams of how my life would be
could I imagine how far I would go, or all that I would see.
And if there’s one thing that is certain about every place I’ve been
is there’s a lot of folks out there now with their patience running thin.

Well, I set out like anyone into this sea of life
thinking I would take what came and overcome most any strife.
But that was before the winds picked up and threw me from my ship
now I am flotsam on the ocean,
but I won’t wear this chip
on my shoulder cause it might just weigh me down
and as long as I am floating there is still hope to be found
so I’ll take it as I can,
one day at a time
and I will tell this to myself,
if just to ease my mind.

That if you weather the storm through the wind and the rain,
you can still ride a bike with a rusty old chain
and there's life on the other side of the pain
but you'll never, never, never, never, never be the same.

Never seems like anything quite goes the way it should,
seems everybody’s got a knack for finding bad amongst the good.
There’s people dying every day, for reasons we can’t tell.
There's war and lies and hate and poverty,
and preachers sending folks to hell,
and what do we do with all this sadness that we've found?
Bartender, bartender: pour another round
cause I’ve spent half of my life crying over things that I have lost
but you can’t pry from my cold dead hands
this hope at any cost

That if you weather the storm through the wind and the rain,
you can still ride a bike with a rusty old chain
and there's life on the other side of the pain
but you'll never, never, never, never, never be the same.

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from Making Friends with Ghosts, released August 20, 2010
Featuring Ueli Schweizer on violins, and Chad Willow on banjo. Clapping and background singing by the good folks at Spring Garden Community Church.

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Kristen Leigh North Carolina

North Carolina native Kristen Leigh's music blurs the lines between genres and styles, drawing from a diverse range of influences to produce unique, folk-based compositions with orchestral arrangements that are at once playful, provocative, and prophetic. Her emotionally honest lyrics explore themes like vulnerability, poverty, grief, redemption, disillusionment, courage, love, and defiant hope. ... more

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