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Resolution

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A song for New Years...
Circa 2011

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Time keeps passing
And I keep changing
Not in the ways I wish I would

World keeps turning
My soul is burning
Not in the ways I think it should

By January One
Ambitions rising with the sun
And a host of resolutions I won't reach before the year is done

And the temperature is cold
Reminding me I'm getting old
And these notions of perfection, I will never hold in my arms

Hearts still beating
Life is fleeting
Not with the speed I think it could

We make mistakes
And slam on all our brakes
But not in the time I wish we would

By December Thirty-One
Our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And a plethora of new regrets outweigh the victories in sum

We ring in the new year
With nostalgia and some hidden tears
And vow unto ourselves we won't return to what we fear we had become

I wish life was a metronome that I could slow down
Instead it's like a metronome I can't
Ticking, tocking with a clock the moments spin 'round
My eyes are fixed upon the second hand

I wish life was a hourglass with unmoving sand
Instead it's like an hourglass that's not
Minutes falling grain by grain becoming the past
Mesmerized, I can't escape the thought

That for all the years I've come
For all the miles I have run
I have never seen a vision like the rising of the sun

For all the times I've cried
All the days I wished to God I'd die
For all the ruined fantasies, the faults, the fights, the failure I've become
There's always been a rising sun

See, the sun keeps rising
I keep surviving
Not I the sense I'd hoped I would

But life keeps going, growing
And even when it's snowing
I get the subtle feeling that this is good

So here's my resolution
My weak attempt at a solution
I don't know much of anything but maybe this is wisdom

If there's one thing I've learned
Here it is, my one conclusion:
Set your eyes upon the rising sun
Fix your gaze upon the rising sun
Turn your face unto the Risen Son

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from Resolution, released December 31, 2015
Written and performed by Dana J. Moore

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Dana J. Moore Augusta, Georgia

singer, songwriter, pianist, novelist, reader, blogger, crafter, mom, wife, believer

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