November 4, 2004
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Shady Kind of Faith
I can’t relate
To the church bells on Sunday
Tea time with cookies
Flowers in springtime
Holding hands in the sunset
Telling the world I’m fine
I’ve never found comfort
By singing a song
Watching the fireflies
Dance all night long
Catching the breeze
By a warm sunlit stream in the forest
Got a shady kind of faith
Distant sense of right and wrong
Learned love from desperation
Learned letting go by holding on
Found hope and faith in twilight
Washing the past from sinful hands
Got a shady kind of faith
It’s a bit dirty but its mine
Got a shady kind of faith
It’s got stains I recognize
Got a shady kind of faith
It’s the only one I know
Lost and alone
Different and distant
Unwholesome, instinctive
Lustful and liable
Sinful and soulful
Its passion on a different scale
Got a shady kind of faith
A darker kind of love
Stained sense of purity
Vision through a dirty window
Overlooking a polluted plain
Optimistic from a gut level perspective
Got a shady kind of faith
In mankind’s survival
Got a shady kind of faith
In good natured horizons
Got a shady kind of faith
That I don’t have the answer
Got a shady kind of faith
That I don’t have to know… anymore
Comments (11)
very well written for poem or song…
man i like this one. i can even feel the rhythm of it. nice nice nice. i can understand the shadiness a little i think… cause what i have may not be like anyone else’s faith, and to most it may not seem like faith at all… but it’s mine, and its ok.
ooo and gracias for the comments of course xD
You know how I feel about this one. It’s one of my favorites. by the way, what’s “shadenfreude” mean?
“Lost and alone
Different and distant
Unwholesome, instinctive
Lustful and liable
Sinful and soulful
Its passion on a different scale”
I love reading words that I can relate to…
for I am different and distant by choice
I would assume I am all those things that you listed if not knowI have been or shall be…
This is a most beautiful display of words.
you just might be the craziest person i know.
and that’s a compliment.
no, it wasn’t me that you answered the “how’s life” question to.
now you did though. i sincerely hope jobwise that things look up for you.
i originally found your site through your artistic endeavors.
if only they could make us some money, right?
lisa
“Learned love from desperation”
Great line =)
Got a shady kind of faith- excellent write, scratch! I made my own beat to it. Tis kewl
Dear Andreas,
This is a most truthful piece which questions the nature of blind faith in a very soulful and lyrical way. “lustful and liable, sinful and soulful.” You have captured the very essence of man’s questioning nature.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet,philosopher,fool
where did you go?
lisa
I like this song/poem- it is good music (the kind of music that people know is around, but they don’t hear, its the kind that you could just feel.) Have a good thanksgiving and God bless.