A Life Preserved

[Image: 'Blue Like Jazz Motion Picture Soundtrack' Front Cover]

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Bobbing for air, I'm back again
A perfect ten of a dive without a pool
A perfect fool too slow to know
His wind has been knocked out till I'm gasping

Bobbing for air, been up and down
The once renown, angling for another act
Another tactical advance to who knows where
You found me there, I heard you there

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude's too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved
A life preserved

Bobbing for air, I've been atoned
Creation groaned to lift me as I drowned
And set my feet up on the mound of rock you crushed for me
A place to stand, whisper a command

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude's too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved

Bobbing for air, I have been served
A life preserved after all I'd cast away
You tipped the grayscale till the scales fell back to earth
And I saw colors, I heard a shout

Bobbing for air

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude's too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved

Calling me out of the shallows of my world
Called to something graceful, something true
Gratitude's too cheap a word for all you've reassembled
From a spirit broken and unnerved
A life preserved

Ninety-nine to one
Ninety-nine to one
Ninety-nine to one
Ninety-nine to one

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About The Song

From Goliath: A Song By Song Description, NewReleaseTuesday.com, November 17th, 2014:

This first appeared as the end titles track on the Blue Like Jazz movie. Our band and that movie have a tangled past--the band was initially started because I'd spent three years trying to raise money to fund Blue Like Jazz and was getting nowhere. So I called Peter up and suggested we do something together musically to help soothe my utter frustration as a filmmaker. We got the album well underway, then the movie was miraculously funded by a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign started by fans of the project, which forced a two year band hiatus so I could make and promote the movie. The song is a straight up gospel song born from the sense of gratitude I felt at finally being able to make the movie into which I'd invested so many years. But it's also a song of deliverance from the delusion of attaching ultimate importance to anything temporal.