Mean Mary(Mary James) is a songwriter and a bluegrass picker, and an all around musically talented individual.
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We Never Hear the Song
The music swelled unbroken, I stood and listened, awed
Had the earth just spoken or was that the breath of God
Florida’s soulful prayer full of mystique and emotion
From the air, from the ground, from the gulf to the ocean
I heard the salty waves beat to the ocean’s lullaby
Sand squeaked beneath my feet, a seagull laughed its Hi
A turtles plop, the rain’s drip drop, a manatee’s high squeal
A songbird makes a whistle stop, its every note surreal
CHORUS
This unquiet earth makes songs that shouldn’t cease
Strains of music giving birth to a mighty masterpiece
We listen to the music but we don’t sing along
We listen to the music but we never hear the song
A lonely panther’s cry disturbed a wood-stork conversation
Startled and perturbed they chatted their frustration
It didn’t seem to matter to a nearby resting grackle
Who joined a chipmunk’s chatter with it’s own throaty cackle
Hollow trees turned into drums, the wood thrush played a flute
Humming birds joined in with hums, an owl just gave a hoot
Sounds sometimes hilarious or full of gloom and woe
Like throb of Stradivarius or ring of old banjo
CHORUS
BRIDGE
They might sound uninspiring – each musician all alone
But united and untiring with their harmonies full-blown
All day and all night long from this unpretentious band
Comes the hopeful, haunting song of a last frontier’s last stand
CHORUS
Will we find it then lose it, though it echoes on and on
Will we change it, confuse it, get the melody all wrong
Will we never quite belong – will we dream of what has been
Or will we listen for the song we might never hear again
(music and lyrics by Mary James & Jean James)
This is my say of this song, this my 2 cents of it.
It has the walk with nature theme, and it talks about, what goes by unnoticed by the individual that hears it… the music and the melodies, that we find in nature.
It touches about the theme in nature, not by choice by me, but some overly divine spirit, that feeds the feeds the Youtube algorithms… and ultimately feeds you… I came across the Willie Nelson’s “Laws of Nature” a day that I went off FB’s daily posts, and it wasn’t programmed.
Or was it?
My mind can be tricked into thinking delusions too… but the truth will be revealed in the end, so hiding it in the shadows… is only temporary.
I go off into short rants… it’s my schizoid personality.
Anyway, I want to be fair with this song.
It’s a heartfelt and sincere, and talks about the Earth, and all the inhabitants as a band, playing a masterful symphonic song… but “We Never Hear the Song”… it’s a bit ironic… God, is that way.
That’s my 2 cents, of this song… hopefully, you get a clear interpretation of the lyrics… in a world of twitter minded people, we get more dumber each day.
2 Cents = My occasional ranting tangent