Name: If I May Rise
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: All Words & Music Written, Performed & Produced by Josh Taylor. Copyright 2007

If I May Rise

from From The West River (Full Album)-2007 by Josh Ward Taylor

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It was a solemn day for man,
For woman and for child all across the land
It was a sad and sheltered age
Where they'd learn to be afraid
To teach their children where they'd soon stand
Drawn and quartered by the storm
Some seek to find the warmth
Of golden skies through frozen hail
Yet through the silhoutted fog
There may be hope for one and all
That there's a savior that hides on these trails

But I have faltered
Alone and I have cried
For I see that you have chosen
The wrong over the right
And I have washed my hands clean
And cast my blood across your skies
But if you had another chance to be saved
Would you throw it all away
Once again some day if I may rise?

Again they linked their arms once more
As they gathered along the shore
To free their souls from themselves
Long ago somebody must have told them
There's a place that still might hold them
In their sickness and their health
So farewell to arms of innocence
Fairwell to faith and pride
Yet still march proudly into the blind
And greet with open arms uncertainty
Directionless and aimlessly
Until my light may shine

But I have faltered
Alone and I have cried
For I see that you have chosen
The wrong over the right
And I have washed my hands clean
And cast my blood across your skies
But if you had another chance to be saved
Would you throw it all away
Once again some day if I may rise?

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from From The West River (Full Album)-2007, released December 15, 2007

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Josh Ward Taylor New York, New York

Taylor is one of many contemporary singer-songwriters who plants one foot firmly in the roots of artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young while at the same time pushing forward with his own unique voice. And Taylor’s particular voice so imbued with a sense of honesty and earnestness that it is almost impossible not to welcome each of his songs with open arms.-American Songwriter ... more