From a Balance Beam

Marie, from my Trash Can Sinatras Mailing list, sent me a disc from Bright Eyes. It has really blown me away: the lyrics, the melodies, and the voice.

But mostly the lyrics.

This is the latest song that I have on replay: From a Balance Beam

And so I fell like that girl from a balance beam
A gymnasium of eyes
all were holding on to me
I lifted one foot to cross the other
and I felt myself slipping
It was a small mistake
Sometime's that's all it takes...

And I emerged to find the parallels were fewer
I was cleansed
I looked in the mirror and
someone new was there
but I was as helpless as a chess piece
when I was lifted up by someone's hand
And delivered from the corner my enemies
had got me in
But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned'
Inside that holding cell
That is myself
So I wait for the day when I hear the key
as it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me:
"Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day
and finally.... You are free! You are free! You are free!"

Lyrics pasted from Let's Sing It. Buy buy buy the discs of the artists you like.