Looking at the bright side
Trees changing, leaves changing
Yellow-orange symphony
Phoenix rising
Always adapting, cat-like landing
Daring to be free
Oh but i would have been your walls
Oh and I would have been your roof
Oh and I would have done the math
Oh and I would have been your proof
But it’s alarms, unstitched, undone and unhitched
I’m washed and rung, and this ...was the last hoorah
I was yours to leave
I was
Now I am this.
ooooh oh.
A blank slate to write on
Seas changing, these changes
Blue and green menagerie
Tide is rising
Always adapting -- compass spinning
Turning into me
Oh but i would have been your walls
Oh and I would have been your roof
Oh and I would have done the math
Oh and I would have been your proof
But it’s alarms, unstitched, undone and unhitched
I’m washed and rung, and this ...was the last hoorah
I was yours to leave
I was
All the would have’s could have’s should have’s
Don’t make a did out of all that was done
And every I want, I wish and I’d love to my dear
Was intended to be ... but the song went unsung
Potentials, credentials, on paper it’s great
Seems like it might, --hind sight’s always too late
To undo rebuilding, the healing the gilding
I say
I say
Now I am this.
oooooh oh.
credits
from Phoenix,
released September 30, 2010
Written, Recorded, Produced & Performed by Serena Andrews
Tracked & Mixed at Dream Siren Studios, New York, NY
Guitar played by Chris Warren of Alloy Electric, San Diego, CA www.alloyelectric.com
Mastered by Mark Donahue of Sound Mirror Studios, Boston, MA www.soundmirror.com
More info at www.serenaandrews.com
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