Tag: Music and Lyrics

• July 21, 2021

  Lyrics: You Must Wander

  July 20, 2021 “You Must Wander” The cracks are showing through the wallsamidst your formal dining hallA fate of choices, so you say,a child who still thinks it’s a game Your wandering is overdue and it’s timeTo set your feet down on the ground,in the desert now.Tablets broken,Calfs so golden they smash rockHeart beholden on […]
• May 20, 2021

  “Bright/Dark World”

  Bright/Dark WorldNovember 4, 2020 === Never seen the stars so brightin these city constellation skies. I’ve been orphaned once or twicebut never seen a night so bright.I’ve never seen a night so bright. I think I see Orion’s armhunting Eos till she brings the dawn.If you give a man back his sight,he’ll look for you until […]
• March 21, 2021

  (Lyrics) OK With Out

  OK With Feelin’ OutWords and Music by Charlie YoungMarch 20, 2021 Starting to feel ok with feeling outSeeing the what this whole thing’s all aboutI’m finding – past the pews, and past the doors –The people that he really came here for Starting to feel ok with being downMaking signs for gas amidst the proudHearin […]
• January 13, 2021

  (Lyrics) “Into The Dark I Go”

  January 13, 2021 Into the dark I go to chambers deep below to halls of black untold for a dragon and his gold Into the dark I go I must journey there alone right hand on stone fear seizing my bones Into the dark I go to facedown my soul look the monster in the […]
• November 25, 2020

  (Lyrics) “There Is No Fear”

  There Is No FearNov 24, 2020 November 24, 2020 “There Is No Fear”Lyrics by Charlie YoungMusic and arrangement by Charlie Young ——— Caught tiptoeingto the kitchen.I know that feeling staring back at me.Little one. My souls own.Seven years young.Those stony eyes betraya fear I’ve known for years.That goddamn, crumbling peace – and my father’s ghost […]
• November 20, 2020

  When I “Lock-In”

  I see it all like a pictureprojected on a silver screenin an empty downtown theater, sitting there, with you,watching weepinglaughingand figure-eightingtill final scene.
• October 14, 2020

  (Lyrics) “Softening of Soul”

  “Softening Of Soul” Words and Music by Charlie Young © 2020 Charlie Young. All Rights Reserved. On the outskirts of safety, There’s a road that meets its end. All the paths and plains, abating, Suggest a cold and bitter end. But a forest stands between them, The mirror and the twin.The wild wolves are howling,and […]
• October 6, 2020

  Back To Me, Home To You.

  Could we carve out some spaceAmid the waves and the racesFor a cabin in the woodsyon astral tree? Could we move the singing bowl To a fortress? Or some vault?Some place we could rely on?Or maybe even call “home”? For it’s true, after all:The very journey to my heartwas a double-back homeand every room is […]
• August 2, 2020

  Because Of His Tender Mercy

  Adapted from Luke 1:78-79 Because of the tender mercy Because of the tender mercyOf Our God, the Sun shall visit UsFrom high above, and His Great LightShall shine down upon us –Because of His tender mercy. Because of the tender mercyBecause of the tender mercyOf Our God, Heaven’s Light will come.And Those who sit  in Darkness […]
• July 12, 2020

  Awake, North Wind

  The Wind has woken, it seems.She is fury and fire and longing.She is rage and redemption.She is driven by Force invisible toScatter the ground and Fling the dustIn wrath filled ecstasy, delighting the doom. She kisses the Earth and sends the ground flying,like little arcane terrestrial creatures, piloting the skiesset free and unloosed, sedentary sleepers […]
• May 16, 2020

  Running & Hiding

  May 16, 2020 Always running.(always).From everyoneand everythingand people preciousand the memories, too. Always hiding(though I peek out)from who I amand what I can doand what I have doneand what I have left unfinished. Copyright © 2020 by Charles B. Young. All rights reserved.