LYRIC FOR SALE

By Janice Marie Foote

Driftwood...
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Verse 1:
Leaves quiver inside spring's silent breezes
Sunlight glistens off the green of their backs
Liminal time floats by aimlessly
The sparrow's song calls me into peace
While lying by the side of a brook
Cool, cool waters ripple with hope's memories

Verse 2:
Whatever happened to all my yesterdays
Why do I keep living inside lonely ways
When life should move along as it feels
Instead of lying dazed inside confusion
As time floats by like lonely driftwood
Floating upon life's peaceful waters
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Chorus:
Oh I'm just a lonely piece of driftwood
Driftwood driftin' through life's cool waters
A simple existence carved out of cool waters
Driftwood driftin' through life's twists and turns

Oh cool, cool waters come soothe my soul
Oh cool, cool waters come wash over me
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Verse 3:
Life come pour your cool waters over me
Birth spring's song straight into my soul
Come fill me full with familial hope
How I enjoy when life's cool, cool waters
Drown me in love's sweet familial memories
Oh cool, cool waters come wash over me

Verse 4:
If most of my yesterdays are done and gone
Let the rest remain inside three sides of peace
As we search together for the hidden side
Even strangers drifting through unsteady waters
Ask you to put your guns down ending all wars
That are disturbing life's peaceful waters
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Chorus:
Oh I'm just a lonely piece of driftwood
Driftwood driftin' through life's cool waters
A simple existence carved out of cool waters
Driftwood driftin' through life's twists and turns

Oh cool, cool waters come soothe my soul
Oh cool, cool waters come wash over me
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Verse 5:
One day I'll lodge ashore and build me a home
Made solely out of driftwood, love and peace
Driftwood that stacks up inside familial fields
Oh driftwood keep on driftin' through cool waters
Shelter everyone along your lonely driftin' way
As you make your way through cool, cool waters

Verse 6:
Some day collective hands will come together
That'll help this lonely piece of driftwood
Lodge onto communal shores of life
Where love extends beyond familial last names
Between earth's brothers and sisters the same
Come, let's all get lost inside life's peaceful waters
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Chorus:
Oh I'm just a lonely piece of driftwood
Driftwood driftin' through life's cool waters
A simple existence carved out of cool waters
Driftwood driftin' through life's twists and turns

Oh cool, cool waters come soothe my soul
Oh cool, cool waters come wash over me
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... jmf (c) ...