Faithful and True [Jazz Version]
[Intro]
[Verse]
For years I walked unnoticed
over mounds of broken slate
Carrying fragments of a picture
I wanted to articulate
Gathering coloured threads
Weaving them one by one
While somewhere deep within me
Another story had begun
[Pre-Chorus]
Nobody saw the transformation
Though the feelings were sublime
I never thought a door would open
That would give me room to shine
[Chorus]
The years that felt like endings
Were teaching me to fly
Every wound became a brushstroke
Every tear a fractured line.
I worked through fear and doubt
Silenced every wagging tongue
Now I see the finished picture
And know where I belong.
[Interlude]
[Verse]
The world saw only silence
The transformations were concealed
The deepest forms of growth
Emerged when I was healed
A thousand tiny paper cuts
Beneath a shell that never changed
Until the moment wings unfolded
And nothing of the old remained
[Chorus]
The years that felt like endings
Were teaching me to fly
Every wound became a brushstroke
Every tear a fractured line.
I worked through fear and doubt
Silenced every wagging tongue
Now I see the finished picture
I know my race is run
[Interlude]
[Bridge]
A Memory is not a prison
Yesterday is not a chain
Some things must dissolve completely
To free us all from shame
[Final Chorus]
Stems that wilted come alive
Like flowers after rain
All the roads that led me here
Not one was walked in vain
Every season had a purpose
Every mountain another view
When at last my race was run
I proved to be....
faithful and true.
[Outro]
Copyright Taun A. Richards 2022