Story Behind The Song
An international affection connection.
Song Description
Lush haunting ballad with steel guitar and cello. From the CD Sketches by Jim Barbaro.
| Song Length |
3:17 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Peaceful, Endearing |
Subject |
Determination, Long |
| Similar Artists |
Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
JADE AND STEEL
Twenty long years in the steel mill
Blood and sweat for the red, white, and blue.
A grizzly ol' bear with a gentle soul
But his heart was cold as steel.
Soft as a stroke of a feather
Hardened in spite of her tender years.
She dreams of new love under a China moon
As she cries with eyes of jade.
Oceans can't hold you
When destiny calls you
Doesn't matter where you go
It's who....walks with you.
The world spins too fast for this iron man.
Love never knocks on an open door.
But fate appeared in the back of a magazine,
Where he saw his eyes of jade.
She doesn't look back as her ship sets sail
Only sees sunlight breaking through the clouds.
Clutching the letter, she's read so many times,
She dreams of her man of steel.
Love came alive in the dead of winter.
A breath of spring stood there on the pier.
Two lonely hearts forever united
Together as jade and steel.