Story Behind The Song

Observing a friend going through turbulent times with her daughter as well as with her husband and feeling compassion. Also realizing that these times are part of life & they will also pass.

Song Description

Various scenarios where people have to adjust to difficult changing circumstances, like a parent/child relationship becoming strained, ending a relationship, etc. Understanding that change is inevitable, and in particular sad or difficult changes are part life & the way to deal with them is to become flexible & flow with them. Ultimately the song affirms that the difficulties will subside and things will become calm again.

Lyrics

Change upon Change
Words & Music Copyright 2007 Lisa Jane Lipkin


The may-apple is withered and brown
A towering oak has been laid on the ground

Memories loosen and flutter away
A blue wisp of summer is fading to grey

Change upon change upon change upon change
What once was familiar is suddenly strange

Turbulent times for a mother and child
Words break away and emotions run wild
Gone to the past are the days when they smiled
Winds of change can't you blow sweet and mild?

Change upon change upon change upon change
A shift in the wind and our lives re-arrange

Holding the hands of a heartbroken friend
Journeys beginning and journeys at end
Adjusting and trusting's the name of the game
A game where the framework is never the same

Change upon change upon change upon change
The sweet and the gentle is bitter and strange

A face once so flowing now chiseled in stone
Hiding a fear she must go it alone
The rise of the moon and the ebb of the tide
All will be quiet...now waters subside

Change upon change upon change upon change
What once was familiar is suddenly strange
Change upon change upon change upon change
A shift in the wind and our lives rearrange

Change upon change upon change upon change
The only constant: we constantly change