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My personal favourite - a somewhat earthy, gospel folk song. I redid some of the classical guitar parts on July 14/15, 2005. I'm no classical guitarist, but I think it's an improvement over the original version.
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Art rock and folk singer songwriter Tim Gallant.
I'm primarily a songwriter - I've written roughly one thousand songs since about age 12. I listed myself as folk, but in truth I do a broad variety of stuff - quasi-prog, folk, rock, and too-difficult to classify. My major project I'm currently working on is called Metanarrative, and incorporates folk, quasi-classical, semi-Gregorian, art rock and more. The important thing to me is not genre, but beauty. Good melody, pleasing vocals (often with lush harmonies), musical balance. And thoughtful, artful lyrics.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
#3,551 in subgenre Peak #16
Charts
Peak #256
Author
Tim Gallant
Rights
1988, 1993
Uploaded
July 15, 2005
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MP3 6.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
It was a time of trial for my family (my Dad had Lou Gehrig's disease). I don't think I intentionally wrote about that, but the themes of pain and comfort arose out of the context.
Lyrics
RIVERS copyright Tim Gallant 1988, 1993 are you still crying those rivers I can hear your tears falling down your face I can see those scars I cannot erase well, the pain won't be forever and somehow even now behind these prison doors we can reach we can touch what we're longing for hope that is seen is not hope that which has been is not faith it's enough knowledge to know the pain can't last forever Christ is the answer, we know but life holds no hope without death and I can only offer my arms on this side of heaven yes, we're still falling like children but just the same we can laugh we can fly just as the birds dirty face, dirty hands humans cleansed by living Word and it's heaven that makes us willing and puts our feet on concrete and our shoulders on each others in His hands there we stand and we lean on sisters and brothers yes we're still crying these rivers yes we're still falling like children but no we don't despair as if defeated His strength's perfected in our weakness hope that is seen is not hope. . . . how I long just to hold you you can cry on my shoulder as long as we're falling like children I will be falling beside beside you as long as you're crying those rivers I'll still be drying your eyes as long as you're falling as long as you're crying as long as I'm alive I'll still be drying your eyes I'll still be drying your eyes
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