A Wish to Test

Songs from Family Stories : II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I grew up with the bunch

You know the type

Eager and enthusiastic

Forging friendships to last

Then the winters came suddenly

We went our different ways

I reached out to the world

A promise I thought would last

Chorus :

Didn't know what to expect

Followed the rule there was

Trading my skills for a living

Thought it was all it was

 

Came upon a twister on the road

In a long and weary climb to the top

Thought perhaps I should step aside

But decided I would test my wily best

I moved forward and walked into it

It bucked and twisted, groaned and yelled

I held on for what seemed like years

My personality was torn to shreds

 

Chorus :

Didn't know what to expect

Followed the rule there was

Trading my skills for a living

Thought it was all it was

 

It landed me in places I didn't know

My mother's childhood, my father's ancestry

The wife, her place of divine magic

My child, her romantic love of hopes

 

 

 

 

I handled it all, my mind in tunes of right

Then it came up to see me on the road

What was yet unborn and totally unknown

Stripped my mind of all that I knew

It fell on me like a giant tree uprooted

The sound like a roar in the stormy skies

Said it was here before Adam and Eve

But had lost its way in the wayward winds

Chorus :

Didn't know what to expect

Followed the rule there was

Trading my skills for a living

Thought it was all it was

I climbed out of the laden debris

I let fall what was useless to me

Rewrote the book of life I knew

Took to wife the wish I'd brewed

Came to realize then life's own wishes

To renew itself after a journey of ages

To discover in itself its self creation

Then to lead itself to futures untrodden

Chorus :

Didn't know what to expect

Followed the rule there was

Trading my skills for a living

Thought it was all it was