Forgotten how it feels to be free
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Written by keller 5. Jun 2008 06:54 PM
As I sat outside the hospital this afternoon following DBT group I was listening to my MP3 and this song came on, mind you I have heard it many times before but today it just so applied to me.
Its by Shane Howard, my most favourite of all Australian songwriters and has been recorded by Mary Black and some other accoustic hounds.
The first two stanzas are very very apt for me right now. This says it better than I can and right now my words are dried up, no more poetry or songs coming, I am just stuck. Trying to work it out and work through it.
Please enjoy
Warm regards all,
Liz
Give a Little (S. Howard)
Fighting for so long now you've forgotten
How not to be cynical
In a state of turmoil for so long now
You've forgotten
Forgotten how it feels to be free
Set in ways as hard as stone and full of anger
You don't want to listen to your dreams
Feeling like the purpose has deserted
Now you're waiting
Waiting aimlessly
You know you have to grab this moment
You know you have to seize this chance
Want to shake yourself
Wake up from this trance
Dwelling in some dark and lonely places
Forgotten how to trust yourself
Watching as these cast iron feelings weather
Now they're turning
Turning into dust
You know you have to grab this moment
You know you have to seize this chance
Want to shake yourself
Wake up from this trance
Give a little now, before it gets too late
Give a little now, everything can wait
Give a little now, hard enough getting by
Give a little now, easy when we try
Struggling for so long now you can't remember
Exactly how it feels to be free of fear
These visions haunt your every waking hour
You know you have to grab this moment
You know you have to seize this chance
Want to shake yourself
Wake up from this trance
Give a little now before it gets too late
Give a little now hungry strangers at the gate
Give a little now hard enough getting by
Give a little now
Come on try