Sweet Release - Boz Scaggs

I was born on a side road far from here

While the town was burning out my dark window

I was crowned with a cage of cold barbed wire

And my bottle I keep with me even till now

Curse my pain, curse the sunrise every dawn

Those sidewalks ran me ragged, those cracks my only guide

Long for midnight, long for darkness sweet release

Beg the alleys for your endless time to cease

Screaming blackbird on my shoulders

Mark my nearness to his youth

Left my senses reeling as he cried, «I understand you»

(Sweet release, sweet release)

Try the handle, try the doorway, try the path

Try to enter, to enter and to find some solace there, there

In this clearing, you’ll find nothing but a song

Give it breath, give it sunshine and with you it will belong, belong

It will whisper, it will stir a gentle breeze, its hands are your hands

They will take you where you please, if you please

Will you choose to be gentle?

It’s just your life whatever you feel

Are we blind for a reason or is it just to make it real, real?

(Sweet release, sweet release)

Show me do, give me seashells for my ears

Tell your neighbors and forgive them for their fears

(Sweet release, sweet release, sweet release)