Friday 25 November 2011

Out in The City


Key:  D Major



Introduction.  Key:  D Major

Bm       Bm       Em       Em


Verse 1.

       Bm                Em       G          A
The people all will find the Blessed Way
All laughing loud together in the day
        F#m             G        A            D  
Then crying we'll behold the star-lit sight
Of evening turned to graceful night!


Chorus.  Key:  A Major

F#m         C#m       D      D/C#   Bm
Out in the City          I’m on my Way
Out in the City          Night or day
Out in the City          The sheer delight
Out in the City          Filled with light!


Bridge.  Key:  D

A       G       F#m       Em        x2

Introduction.


Verse 2.

We hear the soothing song of musicians
Who proudly play their bold compositions
It’s a new street in every passing season
No one needs to know the rhyme or reason

Chorus.

Bridge.


Verse 3.

I am the one who knows I do not know
And standing silent in the falling snow
I am no more afraid to live or die
Because of what I’ve found within your eyes

Chorus.

Bridge.


Solo.  Key:  F# Minor.

F#m       Bm6      E       D       F#m       Bm6      C#m7     F#m      x2.      


Introduction.


Verse 4.

Feel free to trace the footprints in the snow
Or would you like to stay or gently go?
I love the faces of the passers-by
But still the homeless people make me cry.

Chorus.

Bridge.


Ending.  Key:  D Major

Bm                 Bm                 Em                 Em                 D


Spoken:

I send you out to serve the world…


Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011

Wednesday 16 November 2011

My Soul-mate is Dead (Just Like My Heart)


I looked up and saw an angel on high
An angel that taught my soul how to fly
Like Pegasus riding a beam of light
The Garden of Eden spread in our sight

I looked up and saw the sign of the times
Nailed to a crucifix for His crimes
And though I live in a black wilderness
Still I never thought it would come to this

My Soul-mate is dead!
Just like my heart
My Soul-mate is dead!
Must two as one part?     x2

Happy memories that bring only tears
Lock me shackled and chained with my fears
Gardens we walked through are twisted with thorns
The moon that blest us now proudly wears horns

How can a pure swan fly with broken wings?
How can a dancer dance when no one sings?
Now I cry beneath the sky where I flew
Lost and abandoned with phantoms like you

My Soul-mate is dead!
Just like my heart
My Soul-mate is dead!
Must two as one part?    x2

solo

The clergy is ugly beneath its cloak
Wallowing in brimstone ashes and smoke
Leaving my orphan to die in the cold
Sighing with hearts twenty centuries old

The clergy led my Bright One to the grave
They silenced her soul because she was brave
They lead me blind through the spidery dark
I too died the day God forgot His lark

My Soul-mate is dead!
Just like my heart
My soul-mate is dead!
Must two as one part?   x4

Siddhartha Marr, The Light of the World.

Copyright Jeffrey Merk 2011