Something STill Inside - Integr8d Soul

I haven't posted here in a while! Let's rectify that! Integr8d Fix has been getting the blogspot love, partly because I've been working on comics professionally, and in that process, I've been writing about comics, for what will soon be a book for which I'm seeking a publisher already!

Music's always been part of this blog, as has a certain way of looking at life. They come together in this piece I'm previewing here for you on our new Audacity program, an experiment to keep us occupied 'til we're back in the studio. I've even updated the lyrics blog, Integr8d Soul on Wordpress, since I've hit this one- and I even put together a prototype book of this column after our friend T.J. Jones died in fall of 2015, so I do have a bond with Be Chill- just been working a lot! But what we'd do on the lyrics blog, I will also do here, without the usual discussion of how it came together, besides saying this and another tune were written a week before Christmas, seeking to catch something beneath the gawdiness and bustle of the true holiday's spirit.


I have had serveral topics and books in mind to discuss of late, so I'll try to add more here soon. And holy cow! All posts over the past two years now have over 1000 hits, so SOMEone's been reading!!!! Wow, I appreciate that.
Meanwhile...enjoy!

Something Still Inside Words and Music by Integr8d Soul

G D C D
Try to give them light they set themselves on fire
G D C
They break themselves upon the rock for it’s as they desire

G D C G
I don’t need to be the best Just need not to be the rest
G D C
Whose holidays lead to arrest instead of time they should invest c


chorus

C D G C
Something still inside
could set the world a’right
G D C
we could talk of it all night
C D
the better days so far behind
B C
but better ways are on my mind
G D
for those who see that life can shine
C
So bright

G D C D
Divine the ways not to offend Divine, the ways that might amend
G D C
Hope, our first and only friend Ship of knowing, we would send
C D G C
Mama’s line where we begin Oh, in the end, there’s life again

C D
Something still inside G C
could set the world a’right
G D C
we could talk of it all night
C D
the better days so far behind
B C
but better ways are on my mind
G D C
for those who see that life can shine So bright


12/18/16
Excised line from first verse:

C D G
what inspiration could divest the ‘what-else-do-you-do’‘s a jest

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