From the recording Courage of Fools
A Sport and Pastime
I just completed most of the distribution work for my latest song offering called Crumble Like Sand. I expect to release this song on or about 21 June 24. This song was partially inspired by a book I read by James Salter called A Sport and Pastime. I enjoyed it but would not say I LOVED it.
My music composition work and writing is often very "in the moment". It captures my fleeting moods and/or fragments of things percolating through my world and mind at the very moment of writing. This song is indeed a perfect example of that pattern. By the Way; I do Love the Song : ).
Lyrics
Crumble Like Sand
By David Husted
Try to portray
a modicum of restraint
Draw the line
and then abandon it
Sketch an outline of privilege, smells like
Tobacco, sweat and perfume
Penetrate with slow designs
Bitter whiffs of soured minds
“oooh ,Oui "
“that’s the best right there”
Downs us both
crumble like sand
Clarify the latitude
Describe the amount of elbow room
Tastes sweet as fruit
Moored against the moon
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
Brushed against vanities power
Opportunity smeared
Against the clean and bared.
And I am hoping you can open MY EYES
In life can love be bought with gold?
Dark fragrance of free ah ooh
I fall to my knees, breathe
little bit of leeway in the design
Indulge the stroke let color's bind
I feel you
To Express the un-expressible (just throw it out)
Expose, the tender flesh of truth (to woe your time)
My throat is hoarse, scraped from screaming (come sow your doubts)
“oooh ,Oui "
“that’s the best right there”
Downs us both
crumble like sand
“oooh ,Oui "
“that’s the best right there”
Downs us both
crumble like sand