Push the river and fly Album Lyrics 2015

 

The document contains the lyrics to the album "Push the River and Fly" by Kevin Lajiness, released in 2015, exploring themes of love, longing, and personal reflection.

The lyrics of "Push the River and Fly" by Kevin Lajiness explore several recurring themes:

1. Faith and Grace: Songs like "How Many Chances Are Left to Grace" and "Push the River and Fly" reflect themes of faith, surrender, and reliance on divine grace. ​

2. Love and Relationships: Tracks such as "She Carried You," "Carpenter Sailor Lover," and "The Light" delve into love, sacrifice, and the deep connections between individuals. ​

3. Loneliness and Longing: "I Can't Sleep" and "Lone Wolf Never Cry" express feelings of solitude, yearning, and emotional pain. ​

4. Dreams and Aspirations: "Dream" and "Elusive Butterfly" focus on hope, imagination, and the pursuit of dreams. ​

5. Nature and Spirituality: Songs like "If I Were The Wind" and "Pray for a Melody" highlight the beauty of nature and its connection to spiritual experiences. ​

6. Struggle and Resilience: "Wasteland" and "It's Not Enough" touch on themes of perseverance, self-reflection, and overcoming challenges. ​

7. Freedom and Transformation: "Push the River and Fly" and "Elusive Butterfly" emphasize personal growth, freedom, and transformation.

Overall, the album combines introspection, emotional depth, and spiritual exploration, often using metaphors from nature and life to convey its messages.

Yes, several recurring symbols appear throughout the lyrics of "Push the River and Fly," which help convey the album's themes:

1. Nature: Symbols like rivers, mountains, eagles, hawks, wind, sun, rain, and clouds are frequently used to represent freedom, transformation, spirituality, and the cycles of life. ​

2. Flight: The imagery of flying, such as eagles soaring and spreading wings, symbolizes freedom, transcendence, and striving for higher aspirations. ​

3. Light: Light is used as a symbol of hope, guidance, and spiritual connection, particularly in "The Light." ​

4. Dreams: Dreams and butterflies symbolize hope, imagination, and the pursuit of something elusive or transformative. ​

5. Water: Rivers, tides, and rain are used to signify movement, change, and emotional cleansing. ​

6. Footprints: In "She Carried You," footprints symbolize connection, support, and the journey of life. ​

7. Wasteland: The wasteland represents struggle, stagnation, and the need for renewal or growth. ​

8. Carpenter and Sailor: These roles symbolize creation, connection, and exploration, reflecting the desire to build bridges and navigate life's challenges. ​

These symbols are woven throughout the lyrics to create a rich tapestry of meaning, often blending personal, spiritual, and universal themes. ​

"Kevin Lajiness's album explores themes of faith, love, longing, dreams, resilience, and transformation, using recurring symbols like nature, flight, light, and water to convey deep emotional and spiritual messages."                 Compliments of AI assistance; https://acrobat.adobe.com/ 

Push the river and fly Album Lyrics 2015

                                                                                  

1. how many chances are left to grace

how many chances are left to grace how much grace 

is left to chance let's go and let god they say have faith this day like the eagle that flies without falling from the sky 

I'm up with the sun beauty and one what does it say 

all far away what does it say all far away coming in a train if you see a dove and hold it in your hand will you understand 

i'm down on my knees i'm begging please oh, but no 

i must let go it's not up to me 

i have no power, you see but it's so its so 

i know its so and i can't let go of it chances are 

chances are left up to grace what do you face 

what's left to see part of me and when it's gone 

so am i i say i am who i am  and I go with the wind 

the grass will grow only so long the season will end 

and so i know the'll feed on me for i am hay 

how many chances are left to grace how much grace 

is left to chance

 let's go and let god they say have faith this day 

like the eagle that flies without falling from the sky 

i no I'm up with the sun beauty and one what does it say 

all far away what does it say all far away coming 

in a train if you see a dove and hold it in your hand 

will you understand i'm down on my knees

i'm begging please oh, but no i must let go 

it's not up to me i have 

no power, you see but it's so its so

 i know its so and i 

can't let go of it chances are chances are 

left up to grace  

                                                                                     

2. i can't sleep

i can't sleep tonight i can't sleep today 

i can't sleep my life away cause you live so far away 

it's the middle of the night and i'm missing you 

but there's nothing i can do what can i say? 

why do i feel this way oh how it hurts oh how it hurts 

maybe i could sleep the pain away but if i close my eyes 

i'll fall asleep and i'll  dream of you 

and miss you even more than i do 

if something don't change i know i'm headed for a broken heart it' just gets harder every day i feel my life is passing away

i feel my life is passing  more and more people each day 

go around and say i'm missing you go around and say  

but you live so far away but your so far away if you live half way around but then again i could be there in a day 

i can't sleep tonight i can't sleep today i can't sleep my life away cause you live so far away it's the middle of the night

 and i'm missing you but there's nothing i can do 

what can i say? why do i feel this way oh how it hurts 

oh how it hurts maybe i could sleep the pain away 

but if close my eyes i'll fall asleep and i'll  dream 

of you and miss you even more than i do 

if something don't change i know i'm headed 

for a broken heart it' just gets harder every day

 i feel my life is passing away i feel my life is passing 

 more and more people each day go around and say

 i'm missing you but you live so far away 

but your so far away live halfway around the world 

but then again i could be there in a day 

                                                                        

                              3. pray for a melody

 so i pray for honesty

so i pray for a song. so i pray for a melody 

to move me along. in an old mans dream, 

it seems to sing you a song. Without changing a thing

no drama to tag along.

 they're just a guy in me that wants to be more than just 

memory. Is there a place for me? its warm out here and

water's crystal clear on an incoming tide but romance mother 

nature. only goes so far.she speaks in tongues and tides 

not the language of a lonely one i stare into the water

 i can see you there the candle light and in your

 hand is mine the language of love needs no words 

to rymes and we dance into the night and old 

cleshay that never give up it's life 

and the morning comes with its own satellite 

and for me i won't give up that dream

 it'll just come and go in another scene 

so i pray for honesty

so i pray for a song. so i pray for a melody 

to move me along. in an old mans dream

 it seems to sing you a 

song. Without changing a thing no drama

 to tag along  they're just a guy in me that wants to be more than just memory. Is there a place for me?

 its warm out here and

water's crystal clear on an incoming tide 

but romance mother 

nature. only goes so far

4.

it's not enough

 i do believe it's not enough to face the facts 

and not believe i can change the act 

for a rainbow may be blue there are other colors too 

a pot of gold is finding you no matter how old 

and when it seems there nothing but cold 

there must be a higher ceiling maybe one divinely inspired cause the words i say are true  

 it's not enough and before i walk this valley 

before me someone  said it's not enough too 

as i walk this valley i stand in the shadows

of once a man this 

 such a man not that i changed a chain hold me from the 

promised land it's not enough to be all i am if i find myself without your hand it's not enough to have rison 

and fallen again lonely is a thing i don't want to stand 

standing without you being your man 

to say i don't i don't 

want to stand in without you being it's not enough to fly 

so high to touch the sky talon to, talon for i have seen eagle 

kiss in flight what an awesome sight i do believe it's not enough to face the facts and not believe i can change the act for a rainbow may be blue there are other colors too a pot of gold is finding you no matter how old and when it seems there nothing but cold there must be a higher ceiling maybe one divinely inspired cause the words i say are true  

 it's not enough and before i walk this valley before me someone  said it's not enough too 

                                                                                

5. push the river and fly

 i tried to push the river today 

saw myself climbing a mountain i jumped from the

 highest cliff spread my wings and tried to fly but i wasn't ready

 i didn't wait for destiny saw my self falling to the ground 

and i told myself to make it mine and before i hit the ground 

the eagle flew next to me the hawk on the other side 

they lifted so high the ground had disappeared and they said, now you 

can fly you cannot fall from here i was trying to lift 

the ground something that no one could do 

and they lifted me so high the ground pulled beneath me 

and i pushed the river and flew

even though i was falling but don't tell captain kangaroo and

no one will know the difference the river has forks to witch empties into the ocean when the ocean meets the sky 

the cycle starts over in mountain dew 

i tried to push the river today 

saw myself climbing a mountain i jumped from the

 highest cliff spread my wings and tried to fly

but I wasn't ready

6.

dream

 i've been wishing for a dream i've 

been wishing for a dream like you everyone needs a dream hope is a dream 

i've been hoping for you and if i can't have that dream i'll hope one for 

you now it occurred to me wishing and hoping and a dreaming is only so much to do sometimes you gotta bust a move dreams do come true sometimes you gotta bust a move to to make dream  come true 

if you make them

 happen too i know it happened to me even in this song cause now 

that i wrote it i have something i can sing along while i'm dreaming on you taken to the 

highest mountain view without leaving this page sends a message to you 

telling you i'm dreaming on you in my dreamy song hoping you'll 

sing along i've been wishing for a dream i've been wishing for 

a dream like you everyone needs a dream hope is a dream i've

been hoping for you if i can't have that dream i'll hope one for

 you now it occurred to me wishing and hoping and a dreaming 

is only so much to do sometimes you gotta bust a move

                                                                                     

7. she carried you

i walk down the beach again footprints joined together 

than thay end then they end haward haward haward  wind

 i tried to carry you my friend but the weight brought me down 

and it all came crashing to and end  haward haward haward 

wind it was me that was the weight that brought her down 

she loved me till the end and carried me for life i owe all of me 

 then it occurred to me no one walks alone in life 

even when life begins she carried you within 

 haward haward haward haward haward haward wind   

she carried you and sets you free to marry and lets you be

 so you spend a life together

and she carried you again she holds you up 

and gives her life for you  and gives birth to your children

 she carries within she carried you 

till she couldn't carry no more she carried you in life, 

and she carried you when you died.for whatever life is 

one thing is for sure, when someone cares enough for you

 that they carry you. 

know that love is truly in their eyes i walk down the 

beach again footprints joined together than thay end 

then they end haward haward haward  wind

 i tried to carry you my friend but the weight brought me down

 and it all came crashing to and end

  haward haward haward  wind it was me that was the weight

 that brought her down she loved me till the end

 and carried me for life i owe all of me  

then it occurred to me no one walks alone in life

 even when life begins she carried

                                                                                     

8. carpenter sailor lover

if i were a carpenter i'd

build bridges to your heart build a harp to out of joy and 

mountain dew sing the most beautiful songs fill my toolbox 

with memories times taken with you if if were a fisherman i would fish for men strong and righteous and true build an army of soldiers and wipe out all the evil too

if i were a sailor, i'd 

sail the mountains too. i'd sail through the air with you kissing clouds and star and on christmas we would sail to mars if i were a carpenter i'd

build bridges to your heart build a harp too out of joy and 

mountain dew sing the most beautiful songs fill my too with memories of time taken with children with you 

if were a fisherman i would fish for men strong and i would fish for men strong and righteous and true build an army of soldiers and wipe out all the evil too

if i was a sailor, i'd 

sail the mountains too. i'd sail through the air with you kissing clouds and star and on christmas we would sail to mars if i were a lover i'd surely love you something thats easy for me surely i already do i'd love every moment with you i'd love many things that you do i'd love spending time with you i'd love are children and can't wait to love our grandchildren too

9.

lone wolf never cry

Lone wolf never cries he howls to the wind lonely soul echo's in the crisp moon light running with the pack surely to draw blood hunting alone is hunting twilight battle scars and left for dead wounds licked by the cover of snow comes the miracle of healing danger is hardly friend to the fearless warrior but it makes little sense to fight falling rock  where will he go when the howling stops when he has no lover does he reach a higher star is the wind his new companion does he say good bye does he lay down and die from what I know that the lone wolf is a drifter it's sad I know but not for the prairie the cycle of life calls out to heaven so I tell you my friend Lone wolf never cries he howls to the wind like the soul echoes in the night he howls to the wind while it drifts till he dies lone wolf never cries he howls to the wind lonely soul echoes in the crisp moon light running with the pack surely to draw blood hunting alone is hunting for twilight battle scars and left for dead wounded licked by the cover of snow comes the miracle of healing

                                                                                     

10. the light

given from the heart with a kiss what they say about this 

there is no love greater than this to give your life for a friend it was a dark stormy year and it ended in a tear 

 pieces shattered here 

and there was a light in the distance that was our hope for carrying the knowledge of the past. where 

the road went from a cliff and the friend that i had was a friend once again. but we slipped on the rock where the

road did just end it was clear one could be saved if one was to offset the fall and that had to be me i gave my life happily so that all that remains is the light in the distance and the voice said to me i'll will be there in the end and a time like a day did come and go and off in the distance i could see the light shine brighter on me it had to be i gave my life for a friend still upset before. so now all that remains the light in 

the distance and a voice said to me i will be there in the end and the time flies a day did now come and 

go and off in the distance i could see the light shining brighter on me. i reached out and touched the

 light and in an instant my friend was with me and a voice said out loud when you do for a friend when you do for a lover when there time comes i'll bring you together given from the heart with a kiss what they say about this there is no love 

greater than this to give your life for a friend it was a dark stormy year and it 

                                                                                 

11.If I Were The Wind

(Not a Perfect transcript)   if i were the wind i'd blow with abandon as free as the breeze i'd blow all around you and lift you to the sky cradle in a cloud ruscel through a wheat field and put you to sleep if i were the sun i'd shine on your face and give you my grace and worm you inside and share my rays with your eyes and if i were the rain I'd dance just the same and water the flowers so they blome in the day come to my scences feel the wind in the sky come to my scences feel the sunbeams in my eyes its a river it flows all around and makes me smile when the rains fall upon me i melt to a stream like a to a river pumping life giving birth to her come to my scences and fofill my life hear all around me make me come allive like the flower that blomes in all seasons of time you are one with the spirit you celabrate the blessings of life ashes to ashes dust to dust in the cycle of life if i were the wind i'd blow with abandon as free as the breeze i'd blow all around you and lift you in the sky cradle in a cloud ruscel through a wheat field and put you to sleep if i were he sun i'd shine on your face and give you my grace and worm you inside and share my rays with your eyes and if i were the rain I'd dance just the same and water the flowers 

                                                                                   

       
                                                                                    

12. Elusive Butterfly

If I could put my arms around it I know things would be different Elusive Butterfly why don't you let me hold you and even if I have to let you go just to hold you for a moment they say good things come to those who wait I've been waiting too long Elusive Butterfly it's more than what meets the eye you've captured my imagination with your possibilities end if only I could make you mine but that would not be freedom how does nature choose your reflection of design and color that make it pleasing  to the eye that makes me want to want you and I want to want you cuz even in romancing there's a  peace of mind you are the essence of eternal the hope that blows my mind when I try to describe you the words don't give you justice and if my life be lucky so I do see you many of times if I could put my arms around it I know things would be different Elusive Butterfly why don't you let me hold you even if I had to let you go just to hold you for a moment they say good things come to those who wait I've been waiting too long Elusive Butterfly is more than what meets the eye you've captured my imagination with your possibilities if only I could make your mind but that would not be freedom

                                                                                   

13. Wasteland

It's a wasteland out there and i just can't get anywhere 

nothings growing I'm just growing old it's a wasteland

 and out there walking in circles i've been here before 

so i bow my head and pray for rain and the answer to breaking free

 buts its me i see in the mirror telling myself while i'm drifting 

out to sea such is a nation and a people drifting like me 

with an empty philosophy  iIts the midday sun glaring down on me 

and i can't find a tree to save me in a wasteland 

you can't find some food even in a jungle your at the bottom of the chain it blows my mind the dreams of time build a wall around me 

and the answer it seams for is me to have a vision

 it's been food i seek but the stomach is week 

and it's thought i really hunger and if you say here is the way

 i'll take it with a grain of salt for i know you see its creative reality 

that god speaks to me It's a wasteland out there and i just can't get anywhere 

nothings growing I'm just growing old it's a wasteland

 and out there walking in circles i've been here before 

so i bow my head and pray for bread and the answer to breaking free

 buts its me i see in the mirror