It's Hard to Start a Fire in the Rain

10 weeks ago by @dr_griff · @stephenwordsmith

It's Hard to Start a Fire in the Rain

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Liner Notes

Jumping on the collab bandwagon - and so grateful to @stephenwordsmith for these lyrics! I had music in my head the moment I saw them. (A better recording will be coming when I can turn off the A/C; it's too hot here today not to have it running right now. - better recording uploaded!)

Lyrics

There's nothing but the nothingness before the silver spark
That summons the illusions to illuminate the dark
The blood is cold, the spirit low, the mind a weathered plain
And it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

No matter how we wend the way, the first step's always trying
So armed with willing sticks of wood and will of well-wrought iron
And versed so well in what it takes to rub without refrain
But it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

The trickle through your fingertips of thoughts that hold too long
The shush of records broken on the promise of a song
The flicker of a line that leaps and falters just as fast
The sputter of a first light that could never hope to last

So once again we set our soul into the sparks that fly
To burden them with bursts of life, to burn alive and die
To help us find the fortitude to fall and rise again
For it's hard to start a fire in the rain, in the rain
It's hard to start a fire in the rain

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