Light song-writing (a chorus, a bridge, just a line or a few stanzas here and there) is something I’ve always done like with my poetry…. but I haven’t written full songs in over ten years! I want to share the lyrics to this one, here 🙂
Tributary
1: You are not a bad liar,
but don’t you know there are better tools to build?
Try truth in your future,
and don’t you dare think you fooled anyone at all.
.
Because I let you drip, drip, drip,
picked you up with my lips, lips, lips,
tried to be by your side,
but I should have let you trickle by.
.
Chorus:
Because I have known a waterfall;
I have felt one strong through my all.
How could I confuse you
for something I would not want to lose?
Because I have known a waterfall;
it empowered me through my spine,
my heart and my hips,
yes, yes… my whole body and my mind.
.
2: You are not a bad liar—
honestly, I am impressed;
but I saw through you from the start,
I wanted you to evidence me wrong.
.
So I let you drip, drip, drip,
held you up from my hips, hips, hips,
opened up my warm heart to you
an unsatisfying kind of love.
.
Chorus:
Because I have known a waterfall;
I have felt one strong through my all.
so I cannot stay confused that you
are something I would not want to lose.
Yes, I have known a waterfall;
I am empowered up through my spine,
my heart and my hips,
yes, yes… my whole body and my mind.
.
Bridge:
Years ago you could have been enough,
but I want to lead a powerful life and love.
Now I know you cannot sustain my heart,
but I am still sad to go our ways apart.
.
But, I have known a waterfall;
I have felt one strong through my all.
so I cannot stay confused that you
are something I would not want to lose.
Yes, I have known a waterfall;
I am empowered up through my spine,
my heart and my hips,
yes, yes… my whole body and my mind.
.
And, I am a waterfall;
I am powerful through my core,
my love and my mind,
yes, yes… is for someone who will love me so much more.
