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    "Along the Shadows"genre: Acoustic
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    Exploring the boundaries between good and evil, dreams and nightmares, here and there.
    MP3.com CD: Long Way Home - buy it!buy it!
    CD: Long Way Home   Label: Suwimbo Music
    Credits: Stanislove: Guitar, Rack Harmonica, Vocal; Tim Miller: Percussion

    Story Behind the Song
    Another song whose lyrics sat around for years until a quirky verse structure showed me a new way.

    Lyrics
    As a child I awakened without any doubts about what I would do with the day
    When I lay down to sleep for the last time I hope I can say, “I had it my way.”
    In my boyhood I learned about anger and shame;
    Of beatings and lying to cover my name;
    Trying hard in the present to clean up my game and blaming nobody at all.

    Yesterday was struggle with all of the problems I set up to learn how to love
    And tomorrow has beautiful promise of ecstasy shimmering way up above.
    In the meantime I hang in the balance of doubt
    Of wondering whether it ever works out
    Admitting I might never figure it out and loving myself anyway.
    Dancing freely in a crowd, flung out wide, spinning ‘round
    Laughing gaily, flower-crowned, homeward-bound along the shadows.

    In the worst of my dreams I abandon the means to achieve everything I must do;
    In the heat of the moment I toss off my hold
    On the ties that have bound me to you.
    Tumbling helplessly end over end into space
    Blinded, I cannot remember my face
    Clutching at straws at the end of the race and gracelessly dying alone.

    Do you think you’re somebody who gets what they want
    Without question of righteous or wrong?
    Do you think of the people who get in the way?
    Don’t you wonder why you don’t belong?
    In the darkness of passion integrity dies
    In the probing of daylight, a curtain of lies
    In the deepest depression my soul realized the glorious power of love.
    Rip the chains, flip the mask, fly to freedom unsurpassed;
    Future-bound without a past; cruising fast along the shadows.

    I went to bed last night thanking God for the music, good health, and my sweet Lorraine.
    I woke up this morning praying, “Help me, please, make it through in one piece again!”
    In between I was living one dream at a time
    Kaleidoscope visions of rythm and rhyme
    Awake in a moment of being alive without any fear of failure.
    I was a saint who took no shit from dilettantes and hypocrites
    A ballerina from misfits pirouettes along the shadows.

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