"like the tide" genre: Alternative General
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	"tired and old at 16, with memories of glory gone..."
	Credits: corson: guitar, bass, sampling. tolley jones: violin. sarah manning: also sax
	Story Behind the Song Of the 150-odd songs and pieces I've written, this one took the longest. It started as a synthesizer and drum machine loop on my computer. When working on my third CD, I revisited the piece and began to build an acoustic guitar and bass structure based on the song. I workshopped it with my band and even recorded us on a jambox rehearsing it. Before we could hit the studio, my drummer moved to Belize. So I threw the jambox recording on the computer and worked the basic drumbeat into a loop. Then one day in the shower, I composed the bridge, with violin and sax. I toweled off, write out the sheet music and had a finished piece. By the time the recording was complete, the thing had been in my head for almost three years. Lyrics caught the mystery at age 9 and then I strayed from it tired and old by sixteen with memories of glory gone I was open to the power that god had sewn in the frame now stitches snipped and I've a hole and emptiness 1st blade was drawn by one I loved the most but there's no blame she truly thought it was her or me she cried for hours and said it was too much to bear and it'd be easier if I 'd just take this part and go and now you speak of years gone by like there were more than a few and tell tales of us a million miles down the road now the weight of age can make it hard to breathe but you move with grace enough to guide us both oh but I fear this tale is not merely at chapter's end and those tired eyes; will I ever know what they've held again? caught the mystery at age nine and then I strayed from it tired and old by sixteen with memories of glory gone I was opened to the power that god had sewn in your frame it'd be easier if you'd just take this part and go

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