Kurt Elling - A New Body and Soul lyrics

My heart was misty-hued and lonely / from missing you Without you near-around me / man, was I blue! My eyes would show what I could not say / while you were away Even so, my tears would flow in endless, hopeless replay Love was always only hearsay. Yet, I'd drift around town with downcast dreams in my pockets Stumbling every step Trying to motion my frozen feelings in thick-set flop sweats My mind would echo with treacherous, senseless empty My head was inept Time was a pathway filled with regret. Life was just a trial of wanting / things that are true now Now it's something I can say aloud - Now that I know we two can make life anew & come shining through I'll make us a space / inasmuch as love can do A place safe from thunders / made by fearlessness and wonders Now that love has come / now that I have found you I watch the sun rise on you / and on the hour you wake Not knowing waking from dreaming or remembering Songs I sing you then / I hope you will hear If ever you feel fear or coming to an end. Love is the only thing to balance fearing Loving the deepest depths appearing. Waiting too long for a sign you would come was what nearly k**ed the spirit in the house within me and when you appeared you brought an answer after praying like a sailor sighting landfall on horizons of green or sunrise / after endless nights of burning scenes or having sense be restored to me. Finally the music has a reason to be singing. Hearing voices / calling out of every corner of the city Glittering pretty / but it seemed like empty pity here Chasing them / feeling a stinging searching to find a lasting thing but always / following whatever was flashing people thought I had the mentality of a shambles or a house deserted I remember stories of Orpheus and his love ruinous / Euridice Spirited away / on their wedding day bitten by a snake upon the way / and Euridice had to stay in under-day - SAD! Just as bad / Orphie had / to stay up and lay up with us here / but without her. Some Stun! Can you just imagine / living without it / love that was destined to perfect / everything that was imperfect but Orpheus went & played songs for the man jamming a plan sounding a span taking a stand burning in sand fanning the legend of the man who playing music made the sun to stand and sad though the ending was / I can feel it 'cause I would do the same for you, 'Cause Knowing what we live is part of history A myst'ry philosophic asked a thousand years ago Living after living spent in k**ing or in giving or unwilling Under-fulfilling - a cosmic freak show And in all that Shiva takes in closing one ma**ive eye Darkening sight and sky Hundreds of lifetimes we must try / hoping to break the cycle And enter heaven's eye But heaven's here / it comes clear When loving is living & understanding giving / power Wonder when we'll get together or if life's a broken song Just because we're so headstrong And we'll never get along / It seems like the throng meanders along But just as sad as just as sappy just as angry just as scared as sad You'd think we'd be happy just to be straight-standing On the earth every new date Just to breathe in the air and to love every day away We're given a life to try all our breath to mend the tears over the world where it is clear the world is broken. But still the suffering and terrors go on & every time I think we may be coming to the brink / the glue on something pushes us / and down we fall to shatter in pieces And that's why our teachers teach "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" to the smallest ones: We need a fight song to keep us moving along I should've sung it when thinking you gone. You weren't lost / you were coming I'll teach you / I hope to Give you love that shows you wonders that only love can show And more than you'll ever know / I do love you so. You have got a light living in you / in with and through you & That's what a father's love should teach you. My life a heaven you are making / you have got me in the bag You know I'm yours for taking home or for forsaking I'll . . . give my life up to make sure / you're lacking nothing That's the gist of it. You're the north, south, west and Eden east of it all (I'm least of it all) and so my baby then perhaps (then) you will realize I have found loving With YOU!