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Only Just Beginning

from Flora & Fauna by Michael Dornan Music

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lyrics

There’s a special grace
When two lovers say
That the words they share are off the record.
If you do me wrong,
It won’t be enshrined in song:
May my memory for your kindnesses be so very long.

And if I wrong you,
May the rain just soak me through.
Let the record show we’ve got room to grow
And repairs to do – oh, if I wrong you.

The labour of love that we’re undertaking – It’s a job and a half.
I think I blew the budget! God help us, trying to live beyond our means.
The way yet to go is confidence-shaking:
I could cry, I could laugh. But in my better judgment, you’ve got glory
From some subterranean seam.

What you don’t get told
When you’re twenty years old.
Is when you got love to lose, fear blooms
Like a dry mould.
So if you don’t feel free
Lay it out for me.
If it hurts my pride,
least we’re more alive than we used to be

Honey, these are the days
That might not be replayed
When we watch with the kids. What we thought, what we did,
Might be mislaid – so don’t let’s be afraid.

The labour of love that we’re undertaking –
We build it piece by piece. We might
feel like we’re winning, but not often
(You can’t create while you compete)

The volume of love is like
A house quaking to incredible beats:
It leaves the head spinning.
But it’s worth it –
It’s what gets me onto my feet.

Builder of love, leave us not forsaken:
Whether famine or feast,
It’s only just beginning

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from Flora & Fauna, released August 30, 2021
Drums: Leor Manelis

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