From the recording Stunned
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It’s good sometimes just to stare absent-mindedly. The opening line came into my head one morning idling on my patio, and the rest of the song flowed from there.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>© 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>
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<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’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. </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>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I’m astounded by storm clouds climbing tall through the air </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>
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<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’ve traveled so far? </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>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, you’d think that I’d be jaded –</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all that I have heard, that the novelty’d have faded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">What is left to amaze me? 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’t passed before these eyes?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But even after all’s been said and done, I can still be stunned!</span></p>
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<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 -- </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will spend their last dime to help someone who’s being ignored --</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">who will stand with survivors crippled with grief -- </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 “I forgive you” for some terrible act --</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, . . .</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">When a poem says it all in a handful of words –</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">when a novel tells a story that I’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 -- </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">it dazzles; it leaves me aghast.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After all these years, . . .</span></p>