To A Songwriter
from Journey Home by Tom Smith
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lyrics
To a Songwriter
by Tom Smith, TomSmithMusic.com
You give your heart in many pieces
Like serving loaves and fishes with a prayer
We receive them like from Jesus
I confess, I take my share
Now you ask what’s left for loving
After you have sung your heart away
When it’s gone it can’t be given
But with your heart it’s not that way
Chorus:
You heal by the giving
You heal like the morning
You heal by the singing
Of your song
You say your songs are just illusion
And they are just the high before the fall
Those are the words of your confusion
You say you’re lost. Aren’t we all?
We hide our light under a mantel
Then curse the darkness that we find we’re in
But your singing lights a candle
Where the dark had been
[Chorus]
Bridge:
You have no choice
You have a voice
Use it loud and strong
Final Chorus:
To heal by the giving
To heal like the morning
To heal by the singing
Of your song
by Tom Smith, TomSmithMusic.com
You give your heart in many pieces
Like serving loaves and fishes with a prayer
We receive them like from Jesus
I confess, I take my share
Now you ask what’s left for loving
After you have sung your heart away
When it’s gone it can’t be given
But with your heart it’s not that way
Chorus:
You heal by the giving
You heal like the morning
You heal by the singing
Of your song
You say your songs are just illusion
And they are just the high before the fall
Those are the words of your confusion
You say you’re lost. Aren’t we all?
We hide our light under a mantel
Then curse the darkness that we find we’re in
But your singing lights a candle
Where the dark had been
[Chorus]
Bridge:
You have no choice
You have a voice
Use it loud and strong
Final Chorus:
To heal by the giving
To heal like the morning
To heal by the singing
Of your song
credits
from Journey Home,
released November 6, 2011
by Tom Smith
(c) 2009, 2011 Peabody Hill Publishing (ASCAP)
Tom: vocals, guitar
Mally Smith, Alle Santiago: vocals
Joyce Andersen: viola
Seth Connelly: piano, bass
by Tom Smith
(c) 2009, 2011 Peabody Hill Publishing (ASCAP)
Tom: vocals, guitar
Mally Smith, Alle Santiago: vocals
Joyce Andersen: viola
Seth Connelly: piano, bass
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Tom Smith Boston, Massachusetts
“Folk music is still a living tradition that feeds on new songs that speak of people’s wants, needs, struggles and triumphs. Tom Smith is a man who writes songs that seem like they’ve always been there. There are very few songwriters working today that I would call folksingers, but I would call Tom Smith a true folksinger.” – Dave Palmeter, WUMB-FM Boston ... more
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