The Shine Journal

Scar Tissue and a Bitter Serenade

by

Alison Pearce

Put the past to bed
Lay your ghosts to rest
Leave your doubts behind
There's peace for you to find

Put the lid back on the bottle of sleep
The blame was never yours to keep
Find the soul inside the song
Put it back where it belongs

Let the nightmares out of the box you've made
From scar tissue and sorrow's bitter serenade
You've suffered too long, paid a price too high
Time to spread your wings, time to fly

No sense is found even in hindsight
Turn from the dark, ahead is light
I'll be waiting while you're gone
To find yourself, to find your home

The journey starts with a single step
Walking over the guilt you've kept
It was not yours, it never was
I hope you find what you thought you'd lost

Let the nightmares out of the box you've made
From scar tissue and sorrow's bitter serenade
You�ve suffered too long, paid a price too high
Time to spread your wings, time to fly

Pieces of the puzzle torn asunder
Rent by the violence of monster thunder
Will fit back together and become whole
Relight the spark and come in from the cold

There's a place in my heart that aches for you
But you need to find what's real, what's true
A place to start over, to begin again
And I'll be waiting to the end

Let the nightmares out of the box you've made
From scar tissue and sorrow's bitter serenade
You�ve suffered too long, paid a price too high
Time to spread your wings, time to fly

And if you find that the pain is too great
And feel you can never outrun the heartache
Come home to my arms, it's a safe place to lay
And I will put your ghosts and demons away