(in)Security
(Morgan Finlay)
January 16, 2012
Music & Lyrics by Morgan Finlay
> from Shifting Through The Breakers (2007)
Across a bridge Along a shore The skies born Some years before Steel fence that holds The cliffs at bay Unlocks the point I’d put away
Security A bolder aim... The roads I run never the same I’m not sure I’ll get what I paid for
Let down my guard To touch her face Gave up my heart To keep my place I cupped my hands Shielded my eyes But no big love for me But no big surprise
Security I’ll be ok... You and my love out of the way I’m not sure I’ll get what I paid for
A dot in space A satellite Watch down over me On through the night Longer the train Further apart Know where I am Know where to start
Security You wretched scheme... You’ll break my heart before my dream I’m not sure I’ll get what I paid for I’m not sure I’ll get what I paid for
©2007 Morgan Finlay
zensong
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> first released on Uppercut (2002 EP), then on Everything Will Work Out Right (2005)
as bright of a day as then a feeling of mutual zen the light that no one can ignore rose softly from my bedroom floor
the touch of a greater thing spellbound, completely honest the ropes that I was up against so gently held me in
and the band played on, the same old song tomorrow sings and I'll love you, though an inch or so from my heart for today, for tomorrow knows
tie me up to something so I don't wash away melt me into rhythm colour me out of grey
blessed in my salvation she has lit my eyes ablaze lover gone with morning and daylight come again
and the mind plays on, the same old song tomorrow sings and I'll love you, though and inch or so from my heart for today, for tomorrow knows
as bright of a day as then a feeling of mutual zen the light that no one can ignore rose softly from my bedroom floor
and the band played on, the same old song tomorrow sings and I'll love you, though an inch or so from my heart for today, for tomorrow...
©2002 Morgan Finlay
Blessing and Burning
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> from Shifting Through The Breakers (2007)
winter chill, late in the day lonely horse comes without a sound little whispers clear the way follow the dust trails into town come to lay his tired head down the blessing of time… the burning of youth… blessed by things that only come and go, burned by the truth… blessed be the dream… burned into you… from the steppes of these fields of gold, to the fires by the river on the ridge, roll the wheels out of the valley, on the edge of her seat little schoolgirl looks around at the 1870s so many things in store the blessing of time… the burning of youth… blessed by things that only come and go, burned by the truth… blessed be the dream… burned into you… from the steppes of these fields of gold, to the fires by the river from waterfalls through canyon walls, an echo smoke signals never seen, never far behind the blessing of time… the burning of youth… blessed by things that only come and go, burned by the truth… blessed be the dream… burned into you… from the steppes of these fields of gold, to the fires by the river
©2007 Morgan Finlay
Seattle
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> first released on Splice (2004 EP), then on Everything Will Work Out Right (2005)
from in here seems like empty streets alone could read my mind flashing past to where I don’t know faded is the presence of your silence to move with me today out across the lights of Union Bay breathe you in the darkness of your eyes that never looked away I’d never learned to love you slow, did you?.. In Seattle lives a space I’m going through Lean into me the feeling deep inside of a Parasuco dream turned into the very thing I need will I feel the sunshine of our secrets own me that way if Sea-Tac lets me stay for one more day breathe you in the darkness of your eyes that never looked away high above the cobblestone I know pieces of a man I’ve grown to you in the shade your heart has won the patterns of the sun sweeping me through Pioneer Square in Seattle there are things that just ain’t there my endless rain, my quiet hours the heights I know can bring me down the window giving quiet little shadows to roll across the room filling in the space where we begin the empty bed I’m lying in tomorrow when you open up your eyes I’ll betray another life the things I get, the things I know for true in Seattle there is not another you
©2004 Morgan Finlay
The Way It Is
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> first released on Splice (2004 EP), then on Everything Will Work Out Right (2005)
You and your open face Betrayed a wisdom you’d been dealt By heaps of heartbreak While I laid it on the way That makes you feel like someone else I’ll make your body sing And you sense instability I’m a pretty simple read Escape at its purest With you I could be anything I am affected by your seed So this might be different I’m coming through I’m watching everything I’m going through The way you are with me Maybe this is called Turning a corner on yourself There’s shades of green, but then you’re not supposed to know How to believe in something else There’s groundwork falling To everyday man Something unspoken enough That I can’t see it Wrapping my heart around Something as simple as love Yet so uncommon I’m coming through I’m watching everything I’m going through The way you are with me And as I came around You up and left me for yourself What a wise decision Something like nothing new I made this all up anyhow So I’ll stay hopeless But I’m coming through I’m watching everything I’m going through The way you are with me The way you are with me The way it is with me
©2005 Morgan Finlay
Far Beyond Words
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> first released on Splice (2004 EP), then on Everything Will Work Out Right (2005)
If the world could be an open book My life would be a word A nice word if you use it gently And now you see me as I amGoing through another phraseyou’re right there reading over my shoulder Fortune has its way Of repaying The love you give comes back to you In a way that is far beyond words If words alone could fix a broken wing Or mend another heart Then all this talk could make it better You brought me back up on the road You brought my boat on into shore You know it’s hard to thank you near enough Fortune has its way Of repaying The love you give comes back to you In a way that is far beyond words If the world could be an open book My life would be a word A nice word if you use it gently And now you see me as I amGoing through another phraseYou’re right there reading over my shoulder Fortune has its way Of repaying The love you give comes back to you In a way that is far beyond words
©2002 Morgan Finlay
Night At The Mercury
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> from Shifting Through The Breakers (2007)
the Monet looks back at me from walls that cannot see gonna stay here when I lock the door cross the lobby and return the key smoke streams smell like change in which way I don’t really know maybe checkout will make a difference anything to take me home shifting through the breakers white skies pure as snow the sheets my father packed me flap quietly where I go when I grow old and tired of t-shirts in some ways, I already have maybe I’ll belong to Jesus anything to take me home anything anything yeah
©2007 Morgan Finlay
The Reason Why
(Morgan Finlay)
January 01, 2012
Morgan Finlay - Music and Lyrics
> first released on Uppercut (2002 EP), then on Everything Will Work Out Right (2005)
If not the way it’s always been More to the up than in between In disarray I seem obscene Masking my individuality If not the greatest mark in time Perhaps a day will change your mind What did I say that was so mean? Nothing but truthful have I been And you believe in you Like I believe in I What’s beautiful to you? Is that the reason why? Well it’s not the moral that you see babe What’s right for you may not be for me, ok? This may seem cruel and unkind But don’t let this enrapture unwind For is not the sweet essence of life Having the only dream you dream of? Send all your caution to the wind Let rays of light come shining in And you believe in you Like I believe in I What’s beautiful to you? Is that the reason why? At the end of a bad dream There’s a bright new day Everyone will survive their own little way And you believe in you Like I believe in I What’s beautiful to you? Is that the reason why?
©2002 Morgan Finlay
