Eric Thrasher

Lyrics

ESSENCE

Words from my pen are elusive,
like a friend I once knew.
But a smoke and some coffee,
are all the company I need, anyway.

And I’m thankful this time
for the absence of another soul to find:
the image that I see,
gazing blankly back at me in the windowpane.

But if I one time found the key to express,
the story that I've kept to myself.
I would open up the doors and reveal the emptiness,
the essence of me down off the shelf.

Time alone will tell
if in the end alone as well we will be.
But the release I would find
setting free what’s inside, is that all I need.
Answers will come
when the work I have started is done.
And through the first door that opens,
when the words have been spoken,
is where I’ll run.

And if I one time found the voice I’ve repressed,
having hidden what I have kept to myself.
I would open up the doors and reveal my loneliness:
the essence of me down off the shelf.