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September 22, 2010 · Life In Song 1970's, Songs of Transformation

In A Matter Of Hours-Song 023

“Life In Song” #23: “In A Matter Of Hours” is a song about leaving home and growing up. There comes a moment in each person’s life when the home they grew up in becomes their parents house, not their house anymore. Something shifts, something changes. Time to go. Time to grow up. I wrote this just before leaving home for college. Please Note: I recorded this song back in the 1980’s as part of my “Hesitant Journey” album. You’ll find the bonus tracks in the Backstage Pass Members area: Get Your Back Stage Pass!

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In A Matter of Hours | August 1978 | Song #23

All along the razor edge path of living
That they call growing up
We have gone sometimes by ourselves
Sometimes in the company of others
We’ve laughed at religion
We’ve laughed at giving
But existence was never enough
So we searched for answers on bookshelves
In the process of leaving our mothers

Refrain:
We’ll be gone, gone, gone
In a matter of hours
Our father’s homes will be there
But their no longer ours

The knowledge that we’re fragile
Fails to keep us humble
We claim we’re self sufficient
But we blame God if we happen to stumble…
And all the warnings of all the wise men
Fail to save us from our mistakes
And all the words of all the poets
Could not begin to describe our aches

Refrain:

And someday we might be married
Or maybe even divorced
Maybe we’ll have had children
They say that each is a prison of sorts
But there’s freedom in maturity
It’s calling us to come away
While the warmth and safety of childhood
Tries in vain to convince us to stay
(Oh it will never convince us to stay)

Refrain:

Tuning: DADGAD


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