Sharp
Originally Performed By: Voices in Your Head
Music By: Chris Rishel
Lyrics By: Zachary Madden
Arranger: Chris Rishel
Recorded On: I Used to Live Alone (Solo: Chris Rishel)
Awards: Nominated: CARA 2012: Best Scholastic Original
Featured On: Sing 8: Too Cubed
Seasons Performed: 2011-2012, 2010-2011
Solo: Chris Rishel
Sharp (Full Track)
Lyrics:
Cold insideThe winter kissed the fireplace
And they together died
And ashes rose to a higher place
She tells me we can drive away
Make it through the bumps and crashes
Looks at me and I think she knows
We stirred the fire
We left the ashes
She took my hand
When I opened the door and let you out
Somewhere in the heartland
The New Year's wind swept you about
Into the arms of winter coats
I walked past faceless lips on the subway
Singing the blues
And all our notes were
Sharp, and I look at her
But she's just a passenger
Hiding in the rear-view mirror
Sharp, and I wish you were
Here and familiar
So the fire would reappear
Shades of white
She is snow in distant lands
Strange and bright
She's lonely, and I'm made to take her hands
There's ice on her breath and it's hard to see
I tell her that we're going somewhere
She nods her head but I thinks she knows
It won't be home
You used to live there
Sharp, when I look at her,
Glad to be my passenger,
Hiding in the rear-view mirror
Sharp, how I wish you were
Here and familiar
So the fire would reappear
All our years were swallowed by the moon above.
I had no fears, but pictures of a girl in love
Take my vision, steal my breath
Wrap my heart in the ice and there is
Nothing left, the car careens,
The fire is out, and the winter air is
Sharp, and it's cold like her
New and unfamiliar
Frost in the rear-view mirror
Sharp, and I wish you were
Back as my passenger
So the wind would fly
Away from our throats
And I'd take you away
From the winter coats
And the fire
Would reappear