contemplating love's loss...and trying to find a way to dream for a dream come true.
100% melody/lyric by Tony Stenger
©91/92 tony Stenger / ART into LIFE studio
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Written on the edge of a cliff, from Thursday mountain in 1991...Austin Texas in 1991..... as part of a suite of songs I played on the streets of Austin Texas. I was thinking of how easily I could solve all my problems by just jumping... instead, I wrote this and a few other songs and played them from my campfire to the canyons below each night.
I was really in the center of a huge intersection of roads in my heart...searching for a way out of the pain...searching for a road to peace...searching for a desire to believe in love again ... doing all I could to face my lessons..to learn them...to try to find a way back home...but not knowing which direction, which road would take me home...or even if "home" was ever real...
Exploring these yearnings, these calls for a solution that could make sense... it's all there in the overdrive, as I peak the limits, and scream for some sort of remedy.
This song has been played many times on the west coast and traveling from stage to stage... and I still have the same experience each time... looking off into a void..singing to an empty canyon below...
But just like the Canyons of Austin texas... once I complete the song...Ii hear..way far away in the distance... some applause...a few salutes of encouragement... some whistling listeners...
Or... are those screeching tires of other travelers on these roads of life... escaping the whirlpool of no resolution, waiting for you when you hit the crossroads..... when you hit your knees.... in the shadows of the cross-roads, of love?
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Sitting here at the Crossroads of Love, not knowing
If I've had enough...and the campfire's glowing
The wind and the rain
is freeing the pain,
and now my poor heart,
feels the strain,
and now I'm sitting here,
at the Crossroads of Love
Maybe I should slow down
Listen to my heart pound
Things aren't too bad for me now,
I've made peace anyhow.
Well, I've struggled enough,
I've juggled enough,
and I've even almost
Fist a cuff...
Now I'm
imploring God above,
on this Cross-road of love
Mama can you hear me now?
Will we ever meet again?
Daddy it's so clear to me!
We coulda been best friends!
I see you now in strangers,
I see you walk out on the streets
In your eyes,
I've learned about love
I've learned about defeat!
Yeah, there were times I could not care!
times I wanted my fair share!
all ended up,
in wear and tear!
Now I'm sitting here at the Crossroads of love!
Sitting here at the Crossroads of love,
not thinking....
Have I got enough ...
to begin again?
I've gone 'round the bend,
to fall down again,
and I've even lost,
my best friend
and I'm wondering,
where it all will end?
On this Road of Love?
I've tried enough,
I've lied enough
...and I,
even feel I've DIED enough!
and I've struggled enough,
and I've juggled enough,
and I even confess...
it got too rough!
..and I've had enough
...and I've given up!
and now,
....I'm calling my own bluff!
sitting here, ... now...
in the CrossRoad of love
Knee Deep Dark, in the shadows
...of this Cross-Road of love
Knee Deep in the Dark shadows of this
Cross Road of love...
Kneeling in the deep dark shadows,
of this cross...
... road of love!
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