dDevoted _ Op ℞ 069-021-306 (1)

[Intro] [fingerpicked acoustic guitar, clean electric guitar lead melody] [Verse 1] [acoustic guitar, bass enters] Before the names we gave to time I knew the contour of your ghost An ancient shape, a hollow paradigm The space that I had feared the most I carried half a century of dust Walking through a neon modern grid An old soul trading in misplaced trust Until the canyon went quiet And you did [Chorus] [full band enters, driving drums, vocal harmonies] Love, I am anchored to your shore Not for the fair weather But for the storm Through the quiet wilderness And the canyon floor Every ghost I used to be is keeping warm [Verse 2] [drums continue, clean electric guitar arpeggios] I've seen you splintered by the sun Unaware of the medicine you bring In a world that's always trying to outrun You are the only honest breathing thing You don't need a temple or a spire Just a steady hand to hold the wheel When the highway loses its desire And the illusion ceases to feel real [Chorus] [vocal harmonies, crash cymbals] Not like the lightning Not like the fire But like a morning woodsmoke rising higher Soft and certain, an old world melody A promise written in the rings Of the redwood tree Love, I am anchored to your shore Not for the fair weather But for the storm Through the quiet wilderness And the canyon floor Every ghost I used to be is keeping warm [Bridge] [distorted electric guitar solo, heavy drum fills] It ain't a sacrifice to bleed out the blues It's just the natural law of the path that I choose To the ancient rhythm I am devoted [Verse 3] [acoustic guitar, bass, light percussion] If time's a canyon river wide and deep Then I'm the boulder that refused to roll While the rest of the world is fast asleep Chasing some fleeting modern goal I'm not worn down by the rushing stream Nor carried onward to the sea I'm just an old man waking from a dream Finding exactly where I'm meant to be [Chorus] [full band, high energy] And when the skeptics ask us what we found We won't point to the stars or the sky We'll say it looked like dust on the ground It looked like the quiet truth in your eyes It looked like staying through the winter freeze When the easy birds have flown It looked like falling to my knees Knowing I was finally home [Guitar Solo] [distorted electric guitar solo, driving rhythm] [Outro] [vocal harmonies] Love, I am anchored to your shore Not for the fair weather But for the storm Through the quiet wilderness And the canyon floor Every ghost I used to be is keeping warm It ain't a sacrifice to bleed out the blues It's just the natural law of the path that I choose To the ancient rhythm I am devoted Not for the applause, not for the stage Just the quiet truth of an olden page A thousand lifetimes, a thousand miles of track Every single road is leading me back Leading me back, leading me back To you [acoustic guitar fades out] Love Devoted I am devoted I am devoted