Song Description
Horizontal line represents life cycle
| Song Length |
4:04 |
Genre |
Blues - General |
Lyrics
?? "On This Line of Mine" (3:30 Version)
[Intro - ~0:15]
There's a line across my mind... stretching out through time,
And a saxophone is calling soft and low.
Every step I've ever taken is cemented on that line,
From where I've been... to where I'll go.
[Verse 1 - ~0:35]
On the far left of the line are the ones who came before,
In the stories and the voices I still carry at my core.
In the way I turn a phrase... in the things I can't explain,
They are living in the current running through my veins.
[Chorus - ~0:40]
On this line of mine...
Every face, every name,
Like a row of quiet pictures
In a slowly moving frame.
Though the years roll on...
They are never far away,
They're the shadows and the light...
In every step I take.
[Verse 2 - ~0:35]
In the center of the line stand the ones I've loved and lost,
Still I hear them in the laughter... still I feel the cost.
We were running through the fire, we were certain, we were strong,
Now I reach into the silence... while the line keeps moving on.
To the right, the unknown faces... waiting somewhere out of view,
Carrying what I've been given... into something new.
[Bridge - ~0:30]
Time keeps moving down that line... it never will rewind,
Every moment slips behind me... one by one in time.
And when that lonely saxophone begins to play,
It fills the empty spaces where they used to stay.
[Final Chorus - ~0:45]
On this line of mine...
Every soul, every face,
Every moment I was given
No one time can replace.
But of all the hearts that live...
Somewhere on this line...
There's one that stays within me...
Through all of space and time.
[Outro - ~0:15]
And that line keeps moving forward... as the years unwind,
No one's ever really lost... on this line of mine.