Mankind Has Fallen Out of Grace

My Life Is A Beautiful Sadness

By: George Waldrop

my flesh is so weak, my bones are fragile today
the beautiful things my life holds like a wet blanket
the sadness in my soul is a shiny and hot magnet
for all this rainy cold, am I growing old, pain I hold
a weakest mirror like a flash in the pan, the true measure of a man
today I know no convenience, I know no comfort
my head knows this place, keeps no pace with beauty
and I'm scared
my head plays catch with guilt and the art of let downs
and I'm scared
all I have is today's misery
all I have is tears and regrets
my fears are that all I will have is miserable days
confessed fears make for understood ways
to feed the emptiness in my soul, living for today
in this work life, it's no longer my time
like a poem written in fear, a torn and shaky rhyme
crying out with a distressed emotion
this sea of pain, the seachange of my ocean
fluttering fright, heartbeat of trepidation
who do I call out for?
my absent god?
mercy is a blessing
my absent god?
I'm only guessing
mercy from myself
I grant myself
I pardon myself
this fear is mine
I live with it
I own it
I understand it

1. You Are Not Alone
   Mavis Staples

2. The Way of Alone
   Jim White

3. Sunday In Savannah
   Nina Simone

4. A Tramp On The Street
   U.Utah Phillips (Loafer's Glory)

5. What Is Man
   Johnny Cash

6. No Earthly Good
   Billy Joe Shaver

7. No Place to Fly
   Willie Nelson

8. Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart
   Cry Cry Cry

9. Come on Up To the House
   The Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs

10. Jesus
    The Velvet Underground

11. Method Acting / Cortez the Killer (Conor Oberst & Neil Young)
    Dave Rawlings Machine

12. That Feel
    Tom Waits

13. Outfit
    Drive-By Truckers

14. Earth Is a Woman
    Greg Brown

15. Mother Earth
    Kemp Harris

16. The Great Song Of The Sky
    Donovan

17. The Light Was Worth The Candle
    Eric Bibb

18. My Life Is A Beautiful Sadness
    George Waldrop

    
    

    
    

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