Is Anybody Listening

from Lonely Time by John Christian

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As an artist I have wondered if anybody is listening. I have been writing for over 4 decades and I really do question if anyone cares. In 2007 I came to realize that perhaps it is me who needs to adjust my thinking and that somewhere along the way I stopped listening.

This is my personal pocket symphony.

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Writing these words I wonder what is the point of even trying
Is anybody listening?
The cost was so much more but I can see it now there was
Nobody listening
Trading love for anger, surrounded by only strangers
I wanted to have somebody listening
When I recall the faces I can’t remember places I was
‘Cause I wasn’t listening

In the beginning there was only tomorrows…my my
And in the end there may be only sorrows…my my

Come and unite with me
We can take on the world and have
Everybody listening
Though you think you know the story it is only past glory when
You were listening
Chameleon sunrise dawning and in life you are clawing at someone
So they would be listening
Forgetting that you also hear
Not seeing that it’s nothing more than mere pridefulness
That you are not listening

In the beginning there was only tomorrows…my my
And in the end there may be only sorrows…my my

Sitting cross-legged on the floor with no reason to think more
If nobody is listening
At the dawn of the day my strength is there to only cause
Other people listening
When you can only take so much. The writing is on the backs
Of everybody listening
So from here the journey starts and continues on its path
To get myself listening

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from Lonely Time, released May 29, 2016
John Christian - electric guitar, vocals, bass, piano, Oberheim OBX, Mini Moog, sampling, drums, arrangements, and productions.

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John Christian Windsor, Nova Scotia

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