Chicken Crosses The Road- 2018 (Bedroom Demo #97) (Patreon)

from the TST album "John Wayne"
Words & Music by Terry Taylor
©1998 Shape Of Air Music (BMI)

So you concede
You're on the spot
Find all you need
in what you've got
and run
everybody come
to the otherside
It's all right
gonna be all right

We cross the street
by faith and fear
We catch some heat
but we're in the clear

Love
everybody love
and come into the light
where it's all right
it's all right
gonna be all right

Some fall
Some faint
Some give
Some take
Some true
Some fake
Some small
Some great
Some soon
Some late
We crawl
by faith
'til everybody's home....

You will be led
on through the tide
of lost and dead
so deep and wide

So run
everybody come
to the otherside
where it's all right

Love
everybody love
Come into the light
where it's all right
it's all right
gonna be all right ('cause everybody's home)

Find all you need
in what you've got......

guitar and vocals: T.S. Taylor

Note:

It’s a fairly simple lyric, easily understood. I simply wanted to offer words of comfort and encouragement to my fellow faith-travelers and “Chicken” was the result. In this version the listener is hearing the tune as it would have sounded in its infancy; the only exception to this is the backing vocals on the turn-around at song's end; I included these since they were the background vocals I was hearing in my head virtually the entire time I was composing the song. I’ve added a bit of reverb to them since we have all learned through movies and television that whenever someone hears a voice in their head, especially their own, it is usually drenched in echo!