Song-A-Week #2 - Harm and Harmony

[Carl Thomas Gladstone]

.::Carl Thomas Gladstone::.                        original acoustic music on the prophetic edge

January 21, 2007 Hello everyone, After a crazy Fall I am getting back to basics.  Stealing directly from Jonathon Coulton I will attempt to do a Song-A-Week project for 2007.  Already falling behind I see that this will certainly be a challenge - but a good one.  "Each" week I'll write a new songs and record a live version of it for the PROPHETIC EDGE LISTENING ROOM podcast.  Click here to subscribe or search for "Carl Thomas Gladstone" in the iTunes music store. I've done one already, so check that out by subscribing to the podcast.  The text for last week's AND this weeks is below.  I hope you like it.  A word about the text: I am writing songs inspired by friends, but before putting my friend's name in, I thought I should ask her if it was ok!  So I'll add that crucial piece of lyric alter, but for now I hope you like the other writing parts. Coming up you'll probably see some info on some February concerts that I'll be doing around town and around the country.  Had another great show at the Wesley Foundation in East Lansing.  They even laughed at my geekyness to make me feel welcome.  Thanks MSU Wesley! But, without further ado: Song A Week #2 - Harm and Harmony* by Carl Thomas Gladstone 1,000 cranes breath with the breeze. One helpful hand removes each from their string, takes the paper - gray, embroidery - and rips away, removing wing from wing. Whose harmony intone will we? Your careful creases torn away. They wouldn't care if she played on the black and whites but _____ plays in the gray. This great divisive perjury succeeds in lifting out just one offender's smile. They believe that broken cranes can't sing, that harm and harmony repel. Whose harmony intone will we while pity-looks are all they have to say? They wouldn't care if she played on the black and whites but _____ plays in the gray. No, sounding off destruction and the sharp words that puncture and make flat our bird, a theologian with her art, rekindles sacred, worthy songs amid all that. Whose harmony intone will we? Bring newfound night to their awful day. They wouldn't care if she played on the black and whites but _____ plays in the gray. The myth remains that in the wicked tear a brokenness, condescendingly inclined, was born. But strings are filling here and there with choirs of cranes to question and opine... Whose harmony intone will we? How many more will we betray? They wouldn't care if she played on the black and whites but _____ plays in the gray. These lyrics are also available on the ctg blog.  Click here to go there. Song A Week #1 - The Peace We Leave* by Carl Thomas Gladstone They don't know, John what they got you're the shining armor leading man their potluck supper's back again dealers eyein' the block They don't know what they got They don't know, John who you are From the scriptures with the rainin' Jehovah's bow is pointing out at them You brought peace to a junk bazaar They don't know who you are They don't know, John what they'll lose You and your brethren are the crew we should be sailin' with or this Titanic's gonna drink the blues They don't know what they'll lose They don't know, John the half of it with forgiveness and a donut mass You built a house our of broken glass - turned a news crew to evangelists Not the half of it. * for my friend John Peace, ctg Purchase oft broke echo at carlthomasgladstone.com Thanks so much for signing up for this email and remember that if at anytime you'd like to take your name off the list, simply visit our google.groups page to unsubscribe. copyrigth © 2006 carl thomas gladstone | some rights reserved

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