Song Description

This is a song about a man who fell off the wagon when life took a negative turn. Now he is stuck in a cycle of grief and numbness.

Lyrics

So you know no colors in the darkness
And willing living breaths
a little bit less

Quenching storm
takes it?s form
feeding your numbness
This bitter sting is solace here at best
you guess

Cuz you won?t go back
But it won?t get better
From where you?re at
it couldn?t matter anyway

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping
Brother John
Shall I sing a melody for what
you?ve been keeping
you?ve been keeping
in your heart
I?ll sing it out every day
away

Weary whisky mind
trying so not to drown
So you?ve one hand on a bottle
and both feet off the ground

Hold on tight
Don?t let go
What?s lost is never found
That very thing that holds you up
is sure to sink you down

Cuz you won?t go back
But it won?t get better
And you know, in fact
you are drowning in a sea of illusion

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping
Brother John
Shall I sing a melody for what
you?ve been keeping,
you?ve been keeping
in your heart
I?ll sing it out every day
away

I know it hurts
Grief runs through my fingers
But I could cry real loud up here

And I?ll sing it out every day
away

copyright 2000 Stephanie Wright