New Song Written: "Tenth and Main"

I wrote a new song this morning!  Actually, it's more accurate to say that I finished a new song this morning.  I started it with a gem of an idea a few weeks ago.  It started when I was in Downtown Salt Lake City, noticing the bustle and busy-ness of the city, and all of the activities and choices available.  I got to thinking that all of those distractions could easily pull someone away from a spiritually-focused life.

Like "The Taker", it started as an "imaginary biography" sort of song.  These are songs that tell a story of a person's place in life, and, instead of being my own life, it's an imaginary person telling the story.  In reality, however, it always ends up having a lot of parallels to my own life, and it ends up being more auto-biographical than imaginary.

For me, personally, it's about feeling disconnected to God.  There are often times in my life when I'm less spiritually-minded.  I've never actually left the church, but I have gone through times when I'm very distracted by work and other goals.  I guess right now I'm feeling like I need to find my own chapel inside and get back to it more often.


Tenth and Main

Chorus
I need to find the church at the corner of tenth and main
When I was a kid, I used to go there again and again
I need to find some hope here at the corner of fear and pain
I remember the love at the corner of tenth and main


Verse 1

The city streets are alive with the breath of commotion
They give me whatever I want, when I have the notion
They try to fill my empty soul with coins and potions
But mostly they just keep me spinning around in motion

I'm looking for the place where I stood so long ago
I need to find the place where I felt what I needed to know


Verse 2:

There was so much out in the great big world to try
Each bite tasted so much richer than the last one I'd buy
I wanted to savor them all and to make them mine
But the emptiness that haunts me now is keeping me crying

I don't remember why I felt so full so long ago
I need to find the place where I felt what I needed to know


Chorus



Just on a whim, I wondered if there really was a church at the corner of tenth and main, in Salt Lake.  I went to Googlemaps to see.  As you can see from the link, it's just businesses.

The funny thing was, however, that it's only about a block away from the building that housed Suite Sound Studio, where I got my start in the SLC music scene.  Looking at the building now brought back some memories.






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