Lyrics: Ledgers Of...

ALBUM LYRICS - LEDGERS OF A JOURNEY

Fractality

I see patterns everywhere, they do not dissipate

Beneath the randomness exists a predetermined fate

Trapped between dimensions I can’t reach beyond the crest

The fractals have begun to grow, they no longer rest

I define myself from within an endless chain

No matter how close you look the details still remain

I provide an insight to the many things you see

I give order to the chaos in my own fractality

I describe foundations in the universe you seek

I’m as complex as you like, both planar and oblique

Nested repetitions are not always manifest

Just a way to view the world that’s different from the rest

I define myself from within an endless chain

No matter how close you look the details still remain

I can depict a snowflake or an entire galaxy

I bring order from the chaos of my own fractality

I define myself from within an endless chain

No matter how close you look the details still remain

Infinitesimally small or seen in totality

I’m the order for the chaos that’s my own fractality

BYWAYS (ALTERNATE MIX)

I’m sitting here at forty thousand feet looking down on you

Sometimes it’s better to save time than to have a closer view

But the details are gone when you view them far away

Every now and then I need to slow down

And let my feet get tired and dusty in the ground of these…

Byways, they leave the open road

Byways make me lose my heavy load

Byways give me time to find what’s true

Byways, they bring me back to you

How can I measure the miles that make you far away?

The interstate can alter time five hundred miles a day

I get hypnotized and I don’t know where I’ve been

I’m not always near to tell you how I feel

These passages through time and space help my soul heal on these…

Byways, they leave the open road

Byways make me lose my heavy load

Byways give me time to find what’s true

Byways, they bring me back to you

The rays from the sun feel like fire

I’m one with the hawk upon the wire

Cool breezes at night fuel my desire

To come home, I’m coming home

Byways are a lot like life, you never know what’s coming ‘round the bend

It’s difficult to know the journey’s over ’til you’ve reached the end

When I finally get there I’ll know my work is done

Where’s it said that life can’t turn about

Let’s take the next exit and remove all doubt on these…

Byways, they leave the open road

Byways make me lose my heavy load

Byways give me time to find what’s true

Byways, they bring me back to you

Byways, they leave the open road

Byways make me lose my heavy load

Byways give me time to find what’s true

Byways, they bring me back to you

Wherewithal

Why are you so fearful? It’s yourself that you betray

Take the road less travelled and make it your own way

Reject all the limitations that you think you see

It’s time to let your confidence become your remedy

Do you give yourself permission?

Do you hear the call?

Do you see the pathway?

Do you have the wherewithal?

You’ve been held back by the chains of doubt and pain and fear

You must let go of your guilt to make them disappear

In your darkness self-imposed, you’re searching for a light

A guiding star to lead you where your destiny’s in sight

Do you give yourself permission?

Do you hear the call?

Do you see the pathway?

Do you have the wherewithal?

Now it is your moment, be the hero in your cape

It’s time to seize what’s possible and make your own escape

Did you give yourself permission?

Did you heed the call?

Did you take the pathway?

Did you trust your wherewithal?

Do It All Again

It’s time for an assessment of your time spent here on earth

Was “Number One” your mantra? Is that how you’ve lived since birth?

What would be the legacy of the actions that you chased?

Would there be prosperity or would things lie in waste?

Did you act the conquerer to all of those you beat?

Did you show them mercy when they prostrated at your feet?

It doesn’t make a difference in how you justify

All the things you’ve left behind will stare you in the eye

There are those who take and there are those who give

It’s all in the evidence of how you choose to live

But when your pros and cons are tallied in the end

Do you think that you might choose

To go back and do it all again?

Did you use your influence for the greater good?

Did you stand there watching, or help out where you could?

Did you share with neighbors, or did you keep it all?

Did you help lift others up, or did you let them fall?

How did you make decisions? How did you choose your course?

Was the outcome obvious or did you resort to force?

Did the poor get poorer and the rich get richer still?

Did you choose to save a life, or did you choose to kill?

You might go to heaven, you could go to hell

Or maybe stuck there in between as if trapped within a spell

But those who run the afterlife say where and when

They might decide to just send you back to do it all again

BEACON OF LIGHT (ALTERNATE MIX)

I sailed off from shore on a clear day

Loaded my cargo and went on my way

Set my course to some far away land

And let the winds give me a blowing hand

A clear destination was not to be found in my sight

I’m sailing to nowhere it seems

Because I’m anchored to you in my dreams

Will I fill my eyes again with the beams

From the beacon of light?

No matter how bad the raging seas tossed

I have been blessed with the paths that I’ve crossed

No matter how far on the seas I roam

I feel the pulling of my heart to come home

I’ll find my way even in the dark of night

I sail with the love that I’ve found

With no danger of running aground

And I’ll safely navigate through the sound

With the beacon of light

Some day driven by a need to repent

I’ll appear in the mist all battered and spent

My cargo’s gone and I’ve tied down my boat

I’ll stay here, no longer to float

Where two hearts will be one and all will be right

Done with the long stormy ride

No longer to sail with the tide

And forever I’ll stay by your side

In the beacon of light

Beacon of light

Beacon of light

Beacon of light

VOICES IN THE CLOUDS

I have walked in deserts and I’ve walked in riverbeds

The texture of a life is woven with many different threads

Seeing all the wonders that the world has to show

Whatever I have learned, there’s always more to know

Voices in the clouds have many things to say

About the possibilities that lay along my way

Remembering the times when I knew not what to choose

Not sure which was right or wrong, or which was win or lose

The outcome of your future depends on what you stake

Sometimes just one decision is all you need to make

Voices in the clouds are neither false nor true

You just have to listen to what they say to you

You can find messages hidden in the sky

Everything is nothing without a reason why

Daydreams are the insight to the answers you already know

I always thought I knew what my life was going to be

But how my life has played out was something I could not see

Now I’m where I am and I wouldn’t change a thing

I have come full circle like an eagle on the wing

Voices in the clouds like angels singing praise

Help me to carry on as I fulfill my days

Voices in the clouds

PASSIONATE CRIMES

Hear the silent cries of the suffering

There’s no way out for the people oppressed

And those who deny their humanity

Will dominate with the power they possess

Everywhere we look we see unfairness

But with no empathy there’s no alibi

Everyone thinks that they’re the victim

But no one can give a reason why

Seeds of our crimes come from emotions

A moment’s madness that is un-erased

And all the scars that linger after

Remind us of the discords that we’ve faced

Against the machos and the bullies

We wonder how to even up the score

But when things have gone to ruins

Can things ever be the way they were before?

The two-edged sword of our free will

Can cut both ways in our desperate times

All of us have been affected

By someone else’s passionate crimes

They exist in bedrooms and board rooms

You see them raging in the street

They’re there when we convince ourselves

That we’re better than the others that we meet

We are taught how to treat our fellow man

And then we go and violate the pact

We’re not aware of what we’re doing

Because we’re flawed and we subconsciously react

We’ve been numb to others’ feelings

And it seems to happen too many times

Any one of us can be guilty

Of committing passionate crimes

I'LL BE THERE (ALTERNATE MIX)

I’ll be there in your morning

I’ll be there in your night

I’ll be there when things go bad

I’ll be there when things go right

You can count on me

Like I count on you

A higher force is here present

To help lead the chosen few

I’ll be there in your sunlight

I’ll be there in your rain

I’ll be there in your happiness

I’ll be there in your pain

My heart knows the feelings

Which from you I cannot hide

The good in us keeps on the journey

The bad in us falls by the side

I’ll be there in your winter

I’ll be there in your spring

I’ll be there fall and summer

Just ask, I’ll laugh or cry or sing

Don’t take nothing for granted

Nothing worth it is free

But to bring two souls together

It takes more than destiny

I’ll be there

I’ll be there

OBSOLESCENT DAYS

I have left the rat race, no more working for the man

Now I do what I want and I do it because I can

The end is not retirement but a new line in the sand

New days blend together with old lessons still in hand

I am not a has-been, I’m not trapped in cliches

There’s so much left to do in my obsolescent days

I can see the shadows dance as the fire burns down low

I see the distant visions of all the things I know

Memories breathe secrets like wind passing through a crack

But I cannot be limited by only looking back

I will not stop learning, I see so many ways

To continue growing in my obsolescent days

A life full of moments in a heart that’s growing old

Helps to turn the pages for more stories to unfold

There’s no final chapter, just new verses that emerge

I carry forth the good things and dismiss the things I purge

I will improvise with everything else that stays

I will not be held back in my obsolescent days

MY OL' GIBSON

It was a long time ago

As I lived the childhood of mine

I received a gift one distant summer

A new guitar that would shine

You were there at the beginning

When I was young and naive

We grew and learned together

In me, you helped me to believe

The ledgers of a journey

Are written by the changing of the strings

We’ve been around the world together

And we’ve been through many things

We’ve traversed across the oceans

And we’ve camped under the stars at night

And you have been my witness

That I’ve always strived to do what is right

The years have steadily been passing

We both have patinas more mature

We have reveled in our triumphs

We’ve survived through times less secure

In both friendships and loneliness

We gave comfort in our song

But the peace that I feel within me

Is because you’ve helped me all along

The ledgers of a journey

Are built from what has gone before

No matter where life will take you

You cannot know what is next in store

So I’ll be the reed that bends

And not the pillar that will break

And we’ll continue onward

In the melodies that we make