Deathless Song from Bootleg Powerhead by John Lyle

Deathless Song

If the sun don’t burn the tears away from all our ragged dreams
I’ll be the one to try to prove that I am more than what I seem
If the steel, insane insistent rain from my old, lost guitar
Can be a groove for me and a tune for you, help me raise the bar

Love’s a wicked word when you’re a crazy cagey fool
Beneath the silver wires and diamond knives in time
Left alone and stoned into the heart of Emmot’s Zone
I know that everything that’s passed ain’t left behind

And so I’ll meet you in the countryside a love affair from now
You know, I pray the breeze that feeds the trees
Will hold us there somehow

New bluebirds and old blue-devils war inside of me
I guess a deathless song’s the only way I have to set you free

Feel the blue cool burn of frontier justice in the yearning
That we’re yearning every time we want to cry
I’m the part of you that wants to be the part of me
That wants to come into the sky while I’m alive

If the sun don’t burn the tears away from all our ragged dreams
I’ll be the one to try to prove that I am more than what I seem

• Folk
• John Lyle
• blues
• blues folk
• singer song writer
• Sechelt