"Moonlight, Cold Wind" genre: Americana
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	roots rockin' heartbreakin' lonesome zen haiku featuring driving pedal steel and searing vocal harmony
	CD: Tom's Cafe   Label: 2002 Sidewalking Crab Records available on CDBaby.com and www.jamescurley.net Credits: see www.jamesfcurley.com for full credits
	Story Behind the Song I was fooling around trying to write haiku poetry (seventeen syllables, etc.) when I wrote the first verse of this song. Sensing a terrible haiku (it was 18 syllables) but a decent song, I immediately latched on to a rootsy rockabilly groove for the first verse and wrote it from there in about 10 minutes. I named it "Moonlight, Cold Wind" because it just sounded like the title of one of them highly efficient Japanese nature poems we westerners pretend to understand. Lyrics Moonlight, Cold Wind Wind blows; trees shake Snow falls; boughs break River floods; earth quakes People part; hearts break The force of nature known as love Should overpower all of the above Should shelter one from rising tides It only churns me up inside Dawn comes; night goes Ice melts; river flows Seed sprouts; tree grows We reap what we sow Love's force should conquer all Help scale the tallest walls Make clear the grayest sky It always seems to pass me by All around I sense the force at work Light overpowering the dark Why am I the one it will not aid? Why does it make me afraid? Night comes; lights dim Moonlight, cold wind My life looks grim You're there, with him ©2002 James F. Curley

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