The Worry Takes Over

from The Way the Flow Cries by Drew Martin

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lyrics

When you're away and I've things to do,
I sometimes succeed in them and other times too.
But looks can be deceiving and hard to read too.
I'm an addict of a feeling. I think you are too.
So we work on this together, oh inside and out,
Lovin' you forever without any doubt,
But to the fear of loss I'm tethered and I give my trust away,
To the One who is the lever of Life and Death's delay.
Woah.

It's been with me for ages, a fear within' itself.
Scared me and I hated it, Oh my mental health.
Paranoia laughs at me. Oh to be alone,
When the people all around you have left and you're still growin'. Woah.

The shock is undeniably slow to come on. Like a wave out of Africa westward bound.
That's why I broke down when I first met you. We seek the ones we need and right there I knew.
A purposeful life is all that we ask. The blessing of children to measure time's pass.
I'll find ways to deal with it as they grow old. Slowly congealing my thoughts so I'm told. Woah.

The taste in my mouth sparks a vision of a dream. That haunted me forever. Caged in and unseen. It's hard to explain and too easy to feel: the worry takes over, give to it we heal.

With loved ones around us it calms down the storm. The funny thing is, Love ain't where it's born.

Trust in the stress that never goes 'way. Comfortable moments in your quiver of days. Woah.

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from The Way the Flow Cries, track released August 27, 2011
Joey from Blossom.

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