Pride Before A Fall (Further Thoughts)

There are songs in dreams and you're sometimes here, and you may not know the song but it's there and it reminds you of this other time. I hear this song moving over the airwaves, over the hills and valleys of southern California moving eastward crossing the atlantic, echoing in some remote home in Edinburgh, through the streets of London, a bright DJ spinning a re-mix in Germany, it's playing a cafe in Poland, Prague, and Spain... and someone somewhere starts to wonder all over again, it's as if time/space has folded, this is the one... the one we all knew was there... the one the Exe's lusted after but could never have... instead you gave them everything else in between, and the difference would be hardly negotiable except for the fact... that music isn't a career measured in dollars... it's a compulsion driven by the hearts of poets and the minds of mystics and isn't regulated or accountable to trends of popularity which govern the marketed sales crushing and killing the economy of our spirits... compositionally, musically, lyrically this songs speaks to everything we know The Church to be, everything we have believed in, obsessed upon, and wished for... it's is a dream... an answer... illuminating hope while spinning a cautionary tale... telling us our limitations are real... but are efforts are not in vain... 

Pride Before A Fall


on tippy toe quite you go 

so not to wake the sleeper

and well you know 

now that'cha look

it goes further/deeper

pride before a fall

dark before the dawn

fall'n,  fall and fall

calling to you all

***

you face the blame 

graceless ashamed

but baby it's unclear

you fan the flame 

empty flame of fame

but it burns hot as steel

lust and anger, pride and sloth 

we two cut from the same cloth

all that envy, vanity

gonna be an end of me

***

on tippy toe careful and slow

find the news awake her

pride before a fall

dark before the dawn

fall'n,  fall and fall

calling to you all

***

seek light from the stars tonight

up on the night sky

live long as this song does

she's caught in the spotlight

she's home in the night sky

live long as this song does