Janet Lee Myatt: Music

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This is my newest song

I’ve walked these hallowed halls in the midnight hours

Sat devoted at your knee ‘til my back did break

I have listened to your words and seen your power

Learned your endless prayers and fearful ways

I’ve covered my hair and body in dark clothing

Lain prostrate at your alter on cold stones

Beseeched thee with a heart always hoping

Never faltering I gave you everything I owned

 

I’m drifting, I’m sifting

Winding down the pathways of my mind

I’m learning, I’m yearning

Picking up the threads that I left behind

 

I remember how you crushed my pagan kin

Destroyed my faith in the power of a woman’s way

Brought shame upon my head and scorched my skin

With your burning cross of fire in the brittle hay

But you did not remember the Beginning

You fell into the mirror and lost your way

And in your blindness you have stumbled and now I’m winning

You will see the master’s but a slave

 

I’m drifting, I’m sifting

Finding lost pearls in a hidden cave

I’m seeing, I’m being

Revealed to myself in the light of day

 

As the tables turn you try too hard to stop me

The pain and sorrow do drive me to my knees

But you cannot undo what I’ve remembered

Now you will see your servant will not plead

And when the servant finally becomes the master

You will have to find another realm to till

And I will taste the fruits of my sweet garden

And my heart will be the guide of my own will

 

 

I’m drifting, I’m sifting

Truth cannot be taught by a jealous mind

I’m seeing, I’m believing

My eyes are open I’m no longer blind.

No longer blind no longer blind 

No longer blind