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A poem that captures a remembrance of the innocence of my childhood, and how we can so easily slip into becoming something we truly are not. | MP3.com CD: Milestones - buy it!
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Credits: Credits Roy Rivers, all lyrics, music, vocals and instruments - Copyright (c) 2002, Roy Rivers, All Rights Reserved |
Story Behind the Song
The other evening I sat down and wrote the first stanza to what I thought was going to be a new song. The words came quickly and I realized that it was becoming a poem meant for recitation, and needed to be left that way. It's not often that I write poetry that remains without melody. For me, this little poem captured a remembrance of the innocence of my childhood, and how we can so easily slip into becoming something we truly are not. I hope it holds a little truth for you too.
Peace, Roy
Lyrics
A Fewer Set Of Ways
A poem by Roy Rivers
Copyright (c) 2002, Roy Rivers, All Rights Reserved
From time to time in travels
I'm reminded of those days
When life was lived more simply
With a fewer set of ways
Ways that leaned more towards love
And family, and smarts
And not so much like ways today
That tend to harden hearts
Don't think that I'm just groaning
Or lamenting out of spite
But there's just so many things today
That take away our light
The light of love for others
The light of peace towards men
The light of service given
And the light of trusted friends
It seems that everyplace we go
There's something we must buy
And everywhere we cast our eyes
A way, or thing to try
And try we must, we've been convinced
Our progress feels at stake
But some things tried, inflict a wound
And scar our hearts with hate
We hate our boss, we hate our life
We hate the endless lines
We hate the beggars on the street
And we hate their little signs
And all-consuming this becomes
And nudges off the course
The very life we're living
And it hides us from our source
The source of every comfort
The source of peace within
The source who leads back to the light
All women, and all men
To that place we all remember
To those quoted, "good ole days"
When life was lived more simply
With a fewer set of ways
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