Labor of Love
Every year over Labor Day weekend, my brothers Robert and Bennett make the trek down from Missouri to Texas.
When they’re here, we usually write a song or two and record it. Sometimes our other brothers and sisters join us and we make it a family thing.
Larry Seyer
It has become both a wonderful ritual and a Labor of Love. How fitting! A Labor of Love over Labor Day weekend!
This year, we turned on the Electric LarryLand studio camera and shared our writing efforts with all of you.
The result was great fun and a new song to share with all of you.
So here it is; Our Labor of Love for 2009… a song entitled “The Singer is the Song”.
Enjoy!
-=- Lyrics -=-
(Larry)
a hammer for nails
a pill for what ails
a map to show direction
a mirror for reflection
(Bennett)
but what to feed the hunger
remaining from the younger?
it says the answer’s out there
and so we focus out…where?
chorus: (Bennett)
there is no thing to tie you (hey)
no need to look outside you (hey)
it’s hidden as a treasure (hey)
much more than you can measure (hey)
it’s waiting deep inside you (hey)
and been there all along (hey)
and once you right the wrong (hey)
the singer is the song (hey)
(Larry)
a beam to light the rails
a wind to fill the sails
a turn of misdirection
a longing for connection
(Anita)
and if we feel the hunger,
remaining from the younger,
that says the answer’s out there
and so we focus out…where?
chorus: (Anita)
there is no thing to tie you (hey)
no need to look outside you (hey)
it’s hidden as a treasure (hey)
much more than you can measure (hey)
it’s patiently inside you (hey)
and been there all along (hey)
and once you right the wrong (hey)
the singer is the song (hey)
bridge: (Robert)
Living within yourself (feel it)
Is a Radiant Being (see it)
Awake from your dream (believe it)
Allow it to sing (be it).
chorus: (Bennett)
there is no thing to tie you (hey)
no need to look outside you (hey)
it’s hidden as a treasure (hey)
much more than you can measure (hey)
it’s patiently inside you (hey)
and been there all along (hey)
and once you right the wrong (hey)
the singer is the song (hey)
Link to the song:
