Robert Stanley: Music

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This was originally written as a psychedelic song before I actually focused on coming up with lyrics. Nothing seemed to move me so I totally revamped the song while keeping the chord progression - two chords, some progression. It's the old adage about leading a horse to water...except I'm not interested in a horse.

"THE MOUNTAIN AND THE VALLEY"

I was standing on the mountain
Looking on the valley below
There were roads and a pathway
Goin’ nowhere .

When the rain started fallin,’
It did not rain on me.
It rolled down off the mountain
To the valley.

There were friends, there were loved ones,
There were strangers down below.
I had once lived among them,
Many years ago.

Never much thought about ‘em.
Seemed no longer my kind.
When I moved to the mountain
Left ‘em all behind.

Well, that rain kept on fallin’
With its own strategy,
And it rolled off the mountain.
Pourin’ down to the valley.

Then I heard them folks a-cryin’
In the valley down below.
Hit the roads and the pathways…
Hey, look, you got nowhere, nowhere to go.

I went down to the valley,
Cuz I knew they needed me.
I said, “Come up to the mountain,
You’ll be safe up there with me.”

Some, they listened, started climbin’.
Others listened, said, “Roll,
We’ve been long in this valley
And it owns our soul.”

There will always be a mountain
And a valley beneath.
We can’t make no one’s choices,
But we must give the opportunity.