Sacred Ground
I was walking home one day, to the place where it all began.
I was taking note of the difference, between what I saw and I recalled.
And I regret, I never asked Grandpa to retell the stories
About Uncle Charlie and Tage and the post-Civil War,
Before he passed away.
Oh I was feeling nostalgic, so I said a little prayer.
And I talked to God like an old formal acquaintance.
All my religious axioms make for such comfortable patterns of thinking.
They paint my world in drastic shades of black and white.
Sometimes I wonder if my convictions are more blinders to possible truth
And these sacred grounds, shifting beneath my feet,
Don’t feel so stable now.
Well I spend my days in waiting, for something to break me down
I think I could be passionate when I’m undergoing fire.
Because I tried to sing the blues once, but it wasn’t very convincing
My life’s been too easy going. I have yet to meet despair.
So maybe life is simply just coping with the day to day
And my days drag on with the weight of my restlessness
So sometimes I imagine things are worse than they really are.
The other day I almost scared myself to tears.
I was contemplating running, and leaving everything behind.
-I could be a traveler singing folk songs on the road.
But then I asked a righteous man to say some prayer for me
And those hardships I had longed for, well I knew I just couldn’t take em.
Oh cause I thought I’d get religious at the end of my self reliance
I thought I’d find a spiritual power in the midst of desperation.
But in the trial that came, I crumbled in upon myself
No these sacred grounds ain’t eroded none;
I’m just buckling at the knees
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