Song Notes
TK/Jenny Yates
—This song, by contrast, was a slow birthing. The first verse came all at once, as I recall – I loved it and sang it over and over – then there were some more pieces… and a long pause. At some point there was a chorus with several variations. I felt like a blind man feeling my way along, trying this and that, never sure I was on the right track. One day I showed what I had of it to Jenny Yates, and she jumped in, had strong ideas about what was missing, what to keep and what to leave out, and we finished it together. Andrea Zonn did a beautiful job with this on her debut album Love Goes On.
Yesterday’s wars
Stack up like old papers on the floor
Pounding like old knocks upon my door
Breaking like the ocean
Washing through my hands
Changing this old mountain into sand
And you know me by the stories I have made
You know me looking out through boxes and cages
And it’s hard to clearly see what’s right
In ordinary light
Does the truth filter down through the ages
We cannot see the end
So here we must begin
Tell me what will we write on these pages
This open road
Showing only what it wants to show
Calling when it’s time for us to go
Driven by emotion
Pushing from the past
Running till the spirit’s free at last
And you know me by the stories I have made
You know me looking out through boxes and cages
And it’s hard to clearly see what’s right
In ordinary light
Does the truth filter down through the ages
We cannot see the end
So here we must begin
Tell me what will we write on these pages
Down through history we race
Across borders into empty space
We write a chapter, a fable, a line, a trace
Another heart may follow
And you know me by the stories I have made
You know me looking out through boxes and cages
And it’s hard to clearly see what’s right
In ordinary light
Does the truth filter down through the ages
We cannot see the end
So here we must begin
Tell me what will we write on these pages
words & music: Tom Kimmel & Jenny Yates
©2000 WB Music Corp. / Drala Music / In My Dreams (ASCAP)
