Songs:Still Life (40447)

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Lyrics

Sadness is a little boy looking 
Out the window high above the city, 
Counting statues of people on the buildings, 
Thinking that the people are forever, 

He wants his father to be a statue, 
On the rooftop of his fatherless home, 
So that he can always see him, 
So that he will never leave him, 

Late at night in the darkness of his dreaming, 
His father's words fall down in a rainstorm, 
And the words become hands that will guide him, 
Through his life in the world just beginning. 

 
You cannot live in bronze or stone, 
Make your life in flesh and bone. 


Stranded is a man no longer searching 
For the life he had hoped for and imagined 
Courting fear instead of a woman, 
Holding sorrow as his only companion 

Counting days like his money in the markets, 
And watching life from the window in his office, 
Maybe one day I'll have the courage, 
Maybe one day I'll sail across the ocean. 

But I feel safe in the light of my computer, 
This is how I choose to live, 
Fixed in stone a man will wither, 
Running waters are the life of the river. 

You cannot live in bronze or stone, 
Make your life in flesh and bone 
Remember me... 

Frightened is an old man limping 
Through the park on a dark December day, 
He stands frozen at the base of a statue, 
And he hopes for a warm hand to help him, 

Tonight he will dream that he is flying, 
Over banks of a river he remembers 
His father's voice will echo all around him, 
His father's hands will hold him in the sky, 

Now I can sail across the ocean, 
Now I will sail across the ocean, 
Now I am sailing across the ocean. 

I cannot live in bronze or stone, 
I must live as flesh and bone. 
Remember me, remember me, remember me...

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Still Life by Lucy Kaplansky SONG
on the album Flesh And Bone Buy Lucy Kaplansky at CD-Baby Any album (including Flesh And Bone)	Request this song: Still Life (Only logged in and authenticated users can make requests.) Overall rating: (37 votes) Your rating: You have to login to give your opinion about songs. Length: 6:00 Times played: 76 People hearing: 2093 Times requested: 50 First played: Jul 28th, 2003 Last played: Jul 28th, 2008 Previously played: Jun 23rd, 2008 Song ID#: 40447	Listener rankings: 5 stars=Esther ♦ Kelli ♦ Oldcajun ♦ Pyrite ♦ Atuuschaaw ♦ PaulF ♦ TundraDawg ♦ Dale G ♦ Peterdale ♦ dolcefarniente ♦ DogNut ♦ RickHap ♦ Lil Deb ♦ Mainer ♦ BlueRidge ♦ Keystone traveler ♦ Kazookid ♦ OldGowl 4 stars=Jim ♦ Pretendingtowork ♦ Beukeboom ♦ Dean ♦ Sol® ♦ jjascob ♦ Hexaba ♦ CooleyBufo ♦ Whistling owl ♦ Big Tom ♦ countrydave ♦ Firewalk ♦ Cater ♦ Mert ♦ Kimchifox ♦ E.D. Egg 3 stars=Reed ♦ hideous harpy ♦ Doctordoug