Luister na jou hart van hout

Ek het onlangs op 'n musiekgroep afgekom met die naam Listener. Hulle styl is nie almal se koppie tee nie, maar as hulle lirieke jou nie baie diep raak nie het jy 'n hart van hout. Hulle lirieke worstel met die weerloosheid van mense. In Wooden Heart se/sing ons almal stoei met duiwels en spoke, sommer helder oordag. Die kerk bestaan uit skeepswrakke en uitgespoeldes. Ons almal het genade nodig wat ons self nog nooit aan ander bewys het nie.

Wooden Heart

We're all born to broken people on their most honest day of living

and since that first breath... We'll need grace that we've never given

I've been haunted by standard red devils and white ghosts

and it's not only when these eyes are closed

these lies are ropes that I tie down in my stomach,

but they hold this ship together tossed like leaves in this weathered my dreams are sails that I point towards my true north, stretched thin over my rib bones, and pray that it gets better but it won't won't, at least I don't believe it will... so I've built a wooden heart inside this iron ship, to sail these blood red seas and find your coasts.

don't let these waves wash away your hopes

this war-ship is sinking, and I still believe in anchors

pulling fist fulls of rotten wood from my heart, I still believe in saviors

but I know that we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board

washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores

so come on and let's wash each other with tears of joy and tears of grief

and fold our lives like crashing waves and run up on this beach

come on and sew us together, tattered rags stained forever

we only have what we remember

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