DEAD MAN'S ROPE

This song gets me very emotional n weepy.... cos Sting is so poignantly candid in the way he writes abt his personal journey/ search/ wandering. I love tt honesty...n one can relate to that same journey. Perhaps cos i'm pretty escapist...i hate to 'deal', n i'm prone to walking away from God, rather than running twds him when i'm in the midst of my mountain of crap. Sometimes what u feel inside is just so overwhelmingly strong that u pull away from it....

I dunno why i gravitate towards songs/ writings that are abt pain. But i know i'm not the first musical/ creative person to feel that way. Perhaps we were wired to be more sensitive to emotions in general.....n the intensity in pain is so much richer n complex than tt in the state of happiness? Perhaps pain reflects our vulnerability.....n there is beauty in tt fragility? Mebbe i just like being tragic. haha....i dunno, still trying to figure it out.

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by Sting - album sacred love

A million footsteps, this left foot drags behind my right
But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night
And as days turn into weeks and years
And years turn into lifetimes
I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,

If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction
You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle of addiction
Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying since the world was black?
You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone on your back

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space

Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope
Yes I've been walking, now I'm hanging from a dead man's rope
With Hell below me, and Heaven in the sky above
I've been walking, I've been walking away from Jesus' love

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space

The shadows fall
Around my bed
When the hand of an angel,
The hand of an angel is reaching down above my head

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
Now I'm walking in his grace
I'm walking in his footsteps
Walking in his footsteps,
Walking in his footsteps

All the days of my life I will walk with you
All the days of my life I will talk with you
All the days of my life I will share with you
All the days of my life I will bear with you

Walk away from emptiness, walk away from sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away from anger, walk away from pain
Walk away from anguish, walk into the rain.