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Since You Asked

from River of Light by Kristina Stykos

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lyrics

4. Since You Asked

The leaves are soft beneath my feet
Water’s churned up, there’s mud in the creek
The winter ice is melting
It’s hard packed sorrow
The raw blood of the trees & the shifting clouds
And the tender light & the bud red boughs
May the gentle offer of love run sweet
Tomorrow

The clearing where a hundred trees came down
Is filling up with twilight and the sound
Of the silent heavens rolling
And the rain’s silver tears
And so I’ve dropped my body to the ground
And I closed my eyes as the coyotes come ‘round
And prayed the dark would keep me from
My fears

I guess I’ve got a reason
A need - for what it’s worth
Just to walk alone
On the stubble of this earth
Yes, I’ve got a reason and it’s
Always been this way
Cannot bend my wheel
Cannot fake my laugh
Cannot stuff my words away
- Since you asked

The house has just been sittin’ since I don’t know when
This end of the hard road ain’t gonna get fixed again
All them empty windows and a pretty light
No one can see
But I got my job as a woods ramblin’ child at play, out where there’s
No one using me or trying to
Push me away
Where I can sing, and I can love and I can look
Clear down at my life

Not shackled by the issues or the rulebooks of men
Or undone by the shaming of fools or what’s been
The places still hidden have nothin’
To reveal
But by grace and by wing and by plow and by fire
The honest upheaval of truth will require
The plain speaking voice of compassion to
Honor what’s real

I guess I got a reason
A need - for what it’s worth
Just to walk alone
On the stubble of this earth
Yeah, I’ve got a reason and it’s
Always been that way
Cannot bend my wheel
Cannot fake my laugh
Cannot stuff my words away
- Since you asked

credits

from River of Light, released December 8, 2018
Kristina Stykos: vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, bass, Yamaha S90 (organ)
Steve Mayone: acoustic guitar including solo & electric guitar, lap steel, hand drum
Val McCallum: electric guitar, background vocal

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Kristina Stykos Chelsea, Vermont

Kristina is a music producer, recording engineer, songwriter, performer, podcaster and landscape gardener based in Vermont. Her recording studio, Pepperbox Studio, is solar, wind and generator powered. She has engineered & produced over 25 albums for herself and clients. Her songwriting and composing have been supported by the Ucross Foundation and Brush Creek Artist Residency in Wyoming. ... more

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