Alana Henderson Wax & Wane
I could blame our partin'
For the fact that I'm not startin'
All my mornings at the time they ought to start
And I could summon up a sisterhood
Cry lead me out of widowhood
But that is melodrama on my part
I could blame my grieving'
On the fact that I've been leaving
Us behind, the ones we were when this began
But I have rose-tinted us ruby
And I've conjured up a new me
Who bent freely to her newly moulded man
But we bent and we broke and I meant what I spoke
And the blame game does not produce a winner
We went as far as we could go we had to go that far to know
That we had nowhere left to aim
And no one left to blame but
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
And I could blame my parents
For my vices so inherent
That I cannot shake them much as I may try
But how much have I inherited?
Or picked up since I was a kid
That nature versus nurture paradigm
I could blame wrong turns that I take
On decisions that my head makes
Then trace each error right back to my heart
And is it broken ‘cause you toyed with it
Or was it formed with a little split
That grows each year further and further apart
But we love and we lose and we lash-out and we bruise
And the name of the game's just the living
We go as far as we can go we've got to go that far to know
That we have everything to gain
By knowing we can blame
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
And so I look to Karma
And if I try not to harm another
I will not be harmed by anything
If I salute the magpie knock on wood
Will I be doing any good?
Am I strung up or do I pull the string?
Will the fact I cling too tightly
To my dreams come back and bite me
Am I trying to make a science of an art?
And will the very fate I wish to woo
Be the one that I undo
By thinking I can steer this crazy cart
But I'll live and I'll learn
And I'll light and I'll burn
'Til the flame simmers down to a spark
I'll go as far as I can go
I've to go that far to know that I have everything to gain
By knowing I can't train
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
I never said it was your fault
I only wanted to blame someone
I never said it was your fault
I only wanted to blame someone
The moon's wax and wane and the turn of the tide
