Pennies From Heaven
[Intro]
[Verse]
I used to think the answers
Could be found outside of time
Waiting in a distant future
Somewhere further down the line
One by one the pieces moved
By hands I could not name
Shuffled by forces out of sight
Like pennies in an arcade game
[Pre-Chorus]
Every push revealed another
Every touch became a thread
Building quiet constellations
At the margin of the edge
[Chorus]
Pennies from Heaven
Falling all around
Everybody hears the payout
Nobody hears the sound
Of a thousand silent movements
Hidden far from view
Pennies from Heaven
Falling right on cue
[Verse]
Some arrived as fleeting moments
Some as songs I'd heard before
Some as fragments of a memory
Spread out on the editors floor
All the while the hidden current
Moved beneath the ebb and flow
Carrying things toward a threshold
Only hindsight gets to know
[Pre-Chorus]
Every question found another
Every answer changed its shape
Until one small piece aligned itself
Tipping the mountain over the edge
[Chorus]
Pennies from Heaven
Falling all around
Everybody sees the treasure
Nobody hears the sound
Of a thousand tiny movements
Hidden far from view
Pennies from Heaven
Arriving right on cue
[Bridge]
The world remained exactly
As it always seemed to be
Yet something shifted in the pattern
And the pattern shifted me
It wasn't like a lightning bolt
Not a miracle descending
Just a lifetime rearranging
Until the pieces stopped pretending
[Final Chorus]
Pennies from Heaven
Cascading through the air
Rattling round the collection tray
At the local county fair
But the mountain had been waiting
For a diamond in the groove
To drop the final penny
That made the mountain move
[Outro]
The coins keep gently moving
Long before the fall is seen
And every Heaven has a mechanism
Hidden in the machine...
Copyright Taun A. Richards 2019