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4EVER ENDEAVOR

So many times I’ve stumbled on the crooked road

Every step curse the burdens that I have towed

So hard to just get to my feet and move along

I don’t know where I found the guts,to be so headstrong.

 

When my body is breaking down, (and by God I ain’t that old)

I know I got to forever endeavor to save my soul

 

I admit some of my heartache I brought on myself.

And caged in from  my redemption is my personal hell.

The world moves right across me as I lay and I bleed.

They say, “You can’t always get what you want.”

I can’t even get what I need.

And I try, and I try, and I try

 

When my body is breaking down. (and by God I ain’t that old.)

I know I got to forever endeavor. . . to save my soul.

 

I fooled my heart so often that love was found.

Just to learn that on this “island” I’m ever bound.

Someday I’ll stand before the doors to paradise.

Damn sure I’m gonna ask the man, “Was it worth the price?

Well, was it man?” . . .Tell me!

 

When my body is in the ground; in that six foot deep hole.

Know that I forever endeavored to save. . . to save my soul.

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RISE

By, Jay McAllister

 

 

1^st Verse

Been tangled in a thorny patch for many an uncounted day

Trying to beat a path back to you.

I only see a wall of misery that’s in my way.

I am shaking with so much to prove.

Then the raven overhead catches my eye.

I raise my arms above me to the sky.

 

Chorus

I wish I could rise above this murky plain.

I want to soar over the turbulence the lightning and the rain.

I wish I could climb from this hole I’ve dug myself.

The horizon far below me, and the world laid at my feet.

If I could rise.

 

2^nd Verse

My tests and trials fell and shattered into broken glass.

No “do-over” or second chance for me.

And to those who hindered me while I was weak can kiss my ass.

But the anger here I need it lets me see.

My enraged and bitter eyes turn to the stars.

Then I relax when I think of where you are.

 

(Repeat chorus)

 

3^rd Verse

 

Six billion souls infest this dark and sinking cursed earth,

Six billion isolated points of view.

A single voice calls out for you for all it’s worth.

A drowned out scream buried in the gloom.

Accepting lonely days as normality,

And merely prison walls are all he sees.

 

(Repeat chorus)

© Jay McAllister 2010