LATELY

This song is me describing my relationship with the people in the religious establishment in the metaphor of a relationship with a love interest. I have long feared this relationship could never happen. And lately I have begun to hope it could, leaving me scared and very vulnerable feeling.


LATELY

Lately when I turn to face you
what I see are ghosts and wishes
embers falling into  twilight
of our yesteryear

Lately when a punch of whiskey
smiles at my naïve dreams
sliding down my throat like sorrow
riding on the wave of pride and fear

Lately I am come to see that
hope aint always what you made it
up inside your broken heart
to be, and nothing else is either

Lately I have long been dying
in the ashes of our promise
What you gave me to believe
was nothing more than echoes on the breeze

And I don’t have it in me now
to ask you if you please


Can it be that all this color
washes out like nothing happened?
Do you really never fear the age?
Do you really never come awake?

Cuz lately I am reminiscing
Thoughts of you are somehow kissing
broken hopes and dying embers
Making me a crazy sobbing fool

I look down. My fist is clenching
A jewel

Words, music audio recording & video
© John Brusseau, 6/12/2025