Something Beautiful

Song by

Great Big Sea

Hey You, you lost your only friend
You can’t believe you’re broken heart will ever mend
But every mountain has its faces that’d make you want to stop
On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to the top.

Move along
I believe there’s Something Beautiful to see
Move along
I believe there’s Something Beautiful
Just waiting for you and me

I know you’ll never count the tears you’ve cried
Though you’ve asked a million questions
No one could tell you why
A single soul is chosen to be the one put to the test
But there will be some consolation for a heart that never rests

The years will make us older
The winters make us colder
And there’s one more thing I’ve come to know for sure
There’s no bitterness that smolders, no chip on any shoulder
That a random act of kindness couldn’t cure

Hey You, you lost your only friend
You can’t believe you’re broken heart will ever mend
But every mountain has its faces that’d make you want to stop
On this so neverending journey from the bottom to the top.

When i wake in the morning
I look for a warning
That tells me the lay of the day,
Will the sun rise bright
Will it stay forever night
What will the sought signs say?
If all remains black
If I’m under attack
Like timid and frightened prey
I’ll hide in my bed
As if i am dead
Until the clouds go flying away;
But if i wake to the light
That glorious sight
That keeps my dark at bay,
I will leap to my feet
And strive to defeat
By entering the battle’s fray.

And I know the sun has to set in the west
But I’m tired of taking this fucking test
Let me kindle a fire inside of my soul
To strengthen the heart in my chest.

Between the beats

Of this endless heart

Are the spaces of silence

Where death resides

And each returning crush

Pressed new life

Again and again

A fragile music of existence

And i am alive

And I am dead

And I am alive

Take a blazing brand

And burn joy into my flesh

That the pain will always remind

Of the happiness I feel

Let me be scorched

In the glory we call delight

That my ruined flesh testifies

Bears witness to my bliss

Rainbows are illusions

Strung across the clouds

Made out of nothing

Ending in emptiness

They cannot be touched

They cannot be kept

They cannot be poured

Into a golden chest

And stored away for safe keeping

They are lies

Painted across the skies

By a rain that never ends

I needed to empty my well

Before it overflowed

And drowned the world

So I picked up my pen

And i wrote the words

But the waters kept piling up

And i wrote, and i wrote

I summoned magic and curse

But in an empty universe

Without ears to hear

It made no difference at all

There is no apprentice

To task with this effort

No Hercules to challenge

It’s just me and my pen

Pouring out ink

To keep from sinking.

In the window’s glass

There is a reflection of light

That found it’s way

From elsewhere

A sprinkling of stars

Transparent against the grey

Grey sky

Grey snow

Grey streets

Without a glow

But still these panes

Are haunted by the ghosts

Of luminescent pinpoints

Sent as if to say

Darkness can be dispelled

Even when the bright things

Aren’t really there.

Mornings are when

The voice is gone

Speaking through the ether

To the other

Like a rasping curse

Tearing away the stars

And leaving the eastern skies

Blood red and empty

A series of stolen moments

Drifting into the air

And away…

Stand and listen
I see with open eyes
And call you beauty
In form and frantic fantasy
I declare you open heart
And vast compassion
Empathy understated
Soft light within the shadows
Dancing in tune and time
Dancing in rune and rhyme
To a beat that sounds
From within your singing soul
That chimes red for everyone
That bleeds glad for everyone

Remember

I have been joy

I have been love

I have been strength

Remember

I have been laughter

I have been constant

I have been tears

Remember

I have been blue eyes

Looking into your deep

And i have been love

Always

Remember.