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The Cliffs Ahead, The Path Below

from Four Tracks by Keeton Coffman

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At the beginning of the year, something about my voice didn’t seem right.
After weeks of pain, and a doctor’s visit, I learned I was developing nodules on my vocals. Not. Good.

The doctor put me on vocal rest for a couple of weeks and warned me surgery was around the corner if I didn’t take things seriously - I couldn’t speak, let alone sing, for weeks.

All that to say, thanks to Sarah and some great rest, I’m healed and singing again.

But, during the vocal rest, I couldn’t really write songs without a voice - just poems. And this was one of them.

Hoping you enjoy it as a song now.

My friend John once told me, “Hold the dream tightly, but hold to the road lightly.”

Here’s to your journey today.

lyrics

LYRICS

Dust like yellow gold covers my feet
Long and winding road, the path underneath
These green mountains, heard about em as a boy
So close i can almost touch them… almost touch them

Climbing higher, the path way nears the face
Whispering Ghost calls me another way
Down into the valley, green hills on either side
The mountain now behind me, disappearing behind me

“This path you put me on leads me here today
Why bring me here, just to then lead me away?
What good is the fire, if the flames don't climb?”

The Voice says "not this time"

"Sit here soldier, rest your weary feet" it says.
"Nightfall coming; best to make your bed.
Tomorrow’s journey now is not today's concern.
Until the morning comes, sit here and watch this fire burn."

Dancing flames moved high in this forrest dark
Unyielding and untamed, their hungry spirit sparks
How these crackles hypnotize my weary mind to hear

“You, I know why you are here.
Is the fire inside born of virtue or of fear?
You, and I we are one and the same.
And it’s the Fire Maker, who gives both of us our names.”

Morning shakes me, cool and calm, a promise calls.
The cliffs once overwhelming, in the distance seem so small
Though I hoped I’d have the chance to climb
The path below leads me away… This time.

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from Four Tracks, released February 24, 2016
written, recorded and performed by Keeton Coffman

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