Book In Hand

from Book In Hand by Kurt Rongey

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The lyrics reflect undying respect for my father, who possessed the most flawless integrity of anyone I've ever known. The phrase "book in hand" refers to the sum total of all the promises we make to ourselves. For most people the "book" is a burden that weighs down on them, and eventually transforms them into something subhuman. To the remaining few it is something carried as a tool for building structures of happiness for themselves and for others. The recording coincided with that of "Lines."

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Find me summer day.
Find me wonderland.
Life
Find in every blade,
Walking along
the book in hand.

Song of anger
Song of joy
Ever since you were a boy
Running lion catch your prey
Live to run another day.

Noble day awaiting working hand,
It's dark upon the hill.
Aware of wind and clouds and growing land
Green and reaching still.
Order in the heart of you who give
and take when all is made,
Break the soil and let the hard earth live.
A cornerstone is laid.

The inner strength that you breathe into us
Is rewarded by the pain
That turns to joy despite how perilous
the mercy of the rain
A thousand times again one has to trust
that order will remain.

Song of anger
Song of joy
Ever since you were a boy
Running lion catch your pray
Live to run another day.
Delicate and moving fast
Often do I have to ask
How
Anyone could see in you
Any less than all that's true.

Life find.

Give me summer day.
Give me wonderland.
Give
Life in every blade,
Walking along
the book in hand.

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from Book In Hand, released November 1, 1991

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