Ink Stained Fingers
One of the young people I met through my kid's online schooling creates house-synth music and is quite good at it. He composed this chord arrangement and I asked him if I could turn it into a song. Our Creative server group participates in Inktober and other creative prompts throughout the year. This song was written for a "Creativity" prompt in 2019. Thanks to "Tectonic Horizon" for the chord arrangement!
capo 3
G D7 G C D7 G
There is a rescue coming soon—when “life” is written on the tomb
C G D7 G
In crayon by the children — And no one hides an old tried sooth
C G D7 G
There, they keep and write the truth.—Or paint it on the ceiling.
C G C G
A day the answers can be found — Where youth, in thought, will not be bought
C G D7
and wise invention lingers. — In the midst of rhyme or song
C G D7
An Artist’s fingers working long— Depict a world where love belongs.
C G D7 G
Those who create are changing fate and hold the world in ink-stained fingers.
G D7 G C D7 G
Though now we sing in darkened rooms—‘neath the heavy lies that loom
C G D7 G
Someday we shall be minstrels — In streets where children glad to learn
C G D7 G
Write the books the wizards burned—and paint a brand new ceiling
Em B7
Those fingers work into the night—Unveil the truth, capture the light
C G D7
Their’s is the way the fearless fight—Before whom devils cower.
C G D7
The minds of those who live and learn—Hearts who strive to love and burn
C G D7
Beyond the pale of this we yearn—Creating is true power!
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