From the recording This Says This Song

For my friend Mark Lineberry, inspired by his “Every Human Heart”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7pkGT8-2I

Lyrics

Chorus 1:
This says this song we must sing as we sail into tomorrow
Some are taken, some stay ‘cause a lock bars the way
And to give is the key, not to borrow
 
Chorus 2:
This says this song we must sing, that we celebrate what lives long
It’s not the ages we reach but the lessons we teach
So that every human heart serves its song
 
There is a mark of kindness in everyone you know
Measure the yield by the way it’s revealed
Haltingly, or gauged to grow?
(chorus 1)
 
A friend of mind brought vision into this void we roam
He sought music to fill in time others just kill
It called to him, and called him home
(chorus 2)
 
Creating definition’s like mining the spiral in life’s spin
Winding in doubt trying to figure it out
Over and over and over again
(chorus 1)
 
This says this song we must sing, that we celebrate what lives long
That before our days are gone we remind and pass on
That every human heart must serve its song
So that every human heart can serve this song
 
(For Mark Lineberry)
Inspired by “Every Human Heart”:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7pkGT8-2I
 
© 2009 Rob Berretta