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  1. Stunned

From the recording Stunned

<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong><img src="http://theprimecutts.com/img/Going_Down_Down_The_Road_Feeling_Glad.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="131" /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It&rsquo;s good sometimes just to stare absent-mindedly.&nbsp; The opening line came into my head one morning idling on my patio, and the rest of the song flowed from there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>&copy; 2019 Steven E. Cutts </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>recorded and mixed in the fall of 2019 </strong>by Jim Robeson</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Steve, <em>guitar</em> and <em>vocal</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Jason Byrd, <em>guitar (Nashville/high-strung tuning)</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Ron Goad, <em>percussion</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Zan McLeod, <em>mandolin</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Jim Robeson, <em>bass</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Fred Travers, <em>dobro</em></span></p>

Lyrics

<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I&rsquo;m stunned by the magic in the blue of the sky;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">the ceiling of azure lifts up my eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">From the threshold of space, that blue reaches down deep in my soul.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I&rsquo;m astounded by storm clouds climbing tall through the air&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">sparkling with lightning slashing here, flashing there;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">the ominous grey warns that things could fly out of control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">How can it be that the light of the stars</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">finds its way here to me when we&rsquo;ve traveled so far?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">And how can the Moon whether crescent or full</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Give me a tug and a pull?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, you&rsquo;d think that I&rsquo;d be jaded &ndash;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all that I have heard, that the novelty&rsquo;d have faded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">What is left to amaze me?&nbsp; What could possibly surprise?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">What is out there to be seen that hasn&rsquo;t passed before these eyes?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But even after all&rsquo;s been said and done, I can still be stunned!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I marvel at saints who will give unto others --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">greet strangers with love as sisters and brothers --&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will spend their last dime to help someone who&rsquo;s being ignored --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will stand with survivors crippled with grief --&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will bring to disaster a bit of relief --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will combat injustice unafraid to push back --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who can say &ldquo;I forgive you&rdquo; for some terrible act --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">When a poem says it all in a handful of words &ndash;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">when a novel tells a story that I&rsquo;ve never ever heard --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">when a song takes me back to some place in my past --&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">it dazzles; it leaves me aghast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, . . .</span></p>