A song for the delays on the long road, when our wheels are spinning the only thing we can turn is perspective. Country/folk style. Influences, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen. Recording for YouTube by webcam, on the porch at Moffatt near the Mississippi at Carleton Place, ON.

It's Been a Year
Copyright 2007
Arif Jinha

Lyrics

I started out
on a granite bladed mountain
Summer snow lighted
over green forest fields

Breathing visible
breaths of the morning
Lightly alive
indivisible and real

I was accused of honour
and I once held your respect
But I know nothing, that's the problem
about the cause and the effect

Chorus

It's been a year
since I walked with any grace
Told a decent joke
bowed my head to pray

Is there really something
'bout this time, year and place?
Got me frustrated
At the end of the day

Verse

Spring is coming but I don't have the fever
Rainy days and sunshine regrets
I'll be sleeping in tomorrow
Wake up for a cigarette

Bring another drink for my companion
the devil's got to have his fill
We're fighting every war in the world
But I think I'm losin' still

ChorusII

It's been a year
since I walked with any grace
Told a decent joke
bowed my head to pray

Is there really something
'bout this time, year and place?
Got me by my ankles
Trying to run a race

Verse

When I leave the Chapel
of high learning and praise
Walk me down, dirty roads
Back home to your embrace

Chorus III (not included in this version)

And in a year I will walk with some grace
Tell this as a joke, pick up my guitar and play
Something's gotta change, 'bout this time, year and place
One things for certain, gotta change my ways

Verse

Tried to write a song of comfort
Standing outside the broken world
Let down these walls that come between us
Like you would for a girl.

Chorus IV

And in a year, we will walk with some grace Tell each others jokes
Bow together and pray
Somthing's gotta change 'bout this time, year and place
One things for certain, gotta change our ways