Words & music by David LaMotte
© 2004, Lower Dryad Music/ASCAP
June 29, 2004, Black Mountain, NC
Tuning: G G D G B D, Capo 2
This song was originally recorded on David LaMotte’s 2006 album “Change.”
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I guess it’s time
The silence is waiting for me
The words rising up from my lungs
Like a baby coaxed out of the womb
Not without pain
But there’s something so right
For a small sacred moment we see
The old know no more than the young
I’m stepping in out of the rain
I think it’s time
Reading my lines
Weaving my own history
Words flowing over my tongue
Filling the space in the room
Speaking your name
Held in the light
And all that it shows me to be
And all that I’m sure to become
You’re taking my hand just the same
It’s time
And by the way…
…This song arose from my musings about my own wedding, or rather my first wedding. My wife and I had two, about a month apart, and I wrote this in the interval between them. The first was a small Quaker ceremony, and it was that holy time that inspired this song. The song sounds pretty heavy to some people, and I understand that, but that’s not how I hear it. Weighty, but not heavy. I was feeling the depth and holiness and mystery of that commitment and the deep love that inspired it, and this is the song that emerged. It feels right to me that the words end about halfway through and the music moves on without them, expressing more, I think, than words can.