The Darkest Day

I’ve been looking in from the outside

Watching people live their lives from right here

Spending too much time on the dark side

Will the light not come to stay?

 

I’m betting it all on tomorrow

Cause this moment now is not the one

To help lead me out of the darkest day

I’ve had more than enough of the sorrow

But I can’t see any way ahead

So I’ll be stumbling here if that’s okay   

And with a prayer and a song I’m on my way

 

Feels like I’m swimming in raging waters 

With a mighty current dragging me down

Will I let myself be caught or  

Will I pull myself to shore?

 

I’m betting it all on tomorrow

Cause this moment now is not the one

To help lead me out of the darkest day

I’ve had more than enough of the sorrow

But I can’t see any way ahead

So I’ll be stumbling here if that’s okay   

And with a prayer and a song I’m on my way

 

If I had something here to guide me 

Then I think I’d make it alright   

I wouldn’t need all the answers

Just give me a compass in the dark of the night   

 

I’m betting it all on tomorrow

Cause this moment now is not the one

To help lead me out of the darkest day

I’ve had more than enough of the sorrow

But I can’t see any way ahead

So I’ll be crashing here if that’s okay   

And with a prayer and a song, a prayer and a song, 

Please give me a song to light my way

Beneath the Rubble

The earth shook and moved, there was trouble

And our hearts were buried deep beneath the rubble

Beneath the rubble

The crews searched in vain for the survivors

Among the ruins nothing dead, nothing alive, no

They could find none  

 

The sparrow flew far from her own nest to seek the

treasure she could call her very own, she did not find it

Still she scours the corners of the sky never giving up

her labors until she dies  

 

So they went back to identify the fault lines

And they thought probably she had lost her mind

She lost her mind

 

The people shook their heads and tried to save her

They could not understand her behavior

We must save her

 

The sparrow flew far from her own nest to seek the

treasure she could call her very own, she did not find it

Still she scours the corners of the sky never giving up

her labors until she dies  

 

The earth shook and moved, there was trouble

And our hearts were buried deep beneath the rubble

Beneath the rubble, beneath the rubble

 

 

Stubborn Land

There’s been a lot of rain coming down

But the earth it falls on is dry

I’ve seen a lot of tears fall to the ground

Most of them are mine

 

I walked a winding path to get here today

The dark clouds gathered in the sky

How did I get to this place so forlorn 

Is this where my destiny lies?

 

My heart is a stubborn land

Grows as it will, gets what it can

Guided by an unseen hand

My heart is a stubborn land

 

Stung by all of these bitter regrets

They shadow me as I go 

There were so many things I didn’t get right

And others I didn’t know 

 

Still I’ve come to this place that I chose

Though I don’t know quite how

And I will make it a place that I love 

There’s no turning back now

 

My heart is a stubborn land

Grows as it will, gets what it can

Guided by an unseen hand

My heart is a stubborn land

 

So I’ll be following the way   

That my heart told me to go 

Will you walk along this stony road with me?

 

And we’ll seek the verdant gardens

That are waiting for us somewhere

If we can only see

 

My heart is a stubborn land

Grows as it will, gets what it can

Guided by an unseen hand

My heart is a stubborn land

 

All words and music by Marybeth D’Amico

©  ℗ 2011 Marybeth D’Amico/Waiting to Fly Music

LongMan Records Ltd.