The sixteenth track on the 2024 Sinclair Soul album Imaginary Cube, this song derives from the 2009 track “The Cup” on the collection Imaginary Lines 33. This final version of the song features updated lyrics, vocals and acoustic guitar by Ric Albano.
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Composed by Ric Albano on March 2, 2006
From the album Imaginary Cube by Sinclair Soul
Released on July 10, 2024
Musicians
Ric Albano – piano, bass, keys, guitars, vocals
Ron Simasek – drums
Lyrics
Was it just? Was it fair?
Was it running scared with sanctimonious dare?
Was it there when we most needed?
Does it thrust, does it rust in the damp air
Without the proper care?
Does it cry out when it is bleedin’?
Can it be that we are free to be just you and me in dignity?
Can the truth be so plain?
Will it die? Will it lie?
Will it shove a finger in the eye?
Will it ever be the same again?
Once again, is this a possibility?
Is it here? Is it there? Is it present within a bitter stare?
In a perpetual state of tense?
Did it appear anywhere?
Did it leave behind the binded pair?
Did it find its winding way back home
And finally reveal something that makes sense?
Confession or comeuppance?
Saw you at 30, with stature like a god
Missed you at 40, you’d gotten lost in the fog
Heard you at 50 crying for a fallen friend
It’s no uncertain mystery that all certainty must end
And now that it’s all been told
I pray to you Lord, may I finally understand…
Most lifetimes are jagged, uneven and untamed
Most humans are frightened, uncertain and self-blamed
And so I look back darkly, unraveling mysteries
A task slow and methodical in ever agony
Was it always there? Was it always there?
To be ungnarled, rediscovered and compared?
Is it always there?
Who can deny they’re complicit and aware
Of their individual prayer? Their prayer
© 2006-2024 Ric Albano and Cygnus Wave Records
Track 16 of 27 from Imaginary Cube by Sinclair Soul (2024)
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