From the recording YOSEMITE
THE FOLLOWING 12 SONGS ARE FROM OUR NEW CD--HONEY WITH MY TEA.
1. Rain Perry entered this lovely song in the folk category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest one year and, SHE WON! Congratulations, Rain, and thank you for a beautiful coming of age song.
Lyrics
Behind the backstop
And at the breakfast table
On the school bus and other
Assorted torture chambers
The temperature drops
The snow falls the glacier forms
CHORUS
Ten thousand tons of ice
Are crushing you into a
Beautiful, one-of-a-kind boy
The thaw will come
And you will be Yosemite
Year by year, hour by hour
Insults scrape, lonelinesses scour
Leaving erratics and striations
Glacial terrain
CHORUS
I've seen the brightest sparks
Glowing in the faces of my friends
Whose lives have been the biggest mess
And there are no landmarks
Made out of ordinary places
Only landscapes that have seen
The most distress
Someday you will dare
To open your heart
And you'll melt one like mine
Because you are worth knowing,
Worth loving, after all
CHORUS
The thaw will come
And you will be Yosemite