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anthony joseph - he was trying lyrics

[verse 1]
he was trying to change his ways
he was trying to make amends
for all the promises he never kept
for all the wounds that would never be mended
for those rows of sorrows that had no ending
for the way some men steal love with lies
for always depending
on the backbone of a woman
to be strong enough to rise
rise above what he had broken
to fix and forgive him, to give him a home within her arms
and he had sent a mеssage, he had telеphoned
but she had already left those rooms of sadness
and she was on her way back home

[chorus]
but that sunday when she walked out
that sunday, when his heart burst into flames
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his ways
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his life

[verse 2]
she said it’s like we are on
either side of a magical th+rn bush
and she was trying to cut through
to show me how brave she was
to show me her fortitude
to show me her faithfulness
and meanwhile, i’m just sitting on the other side calling out to her
saying, “wow, it’s so hard”
it’s so hard to cut through
maybe you don’t have the strength
i’m pretty sure you’re gonna give up
and she’s thinking well
maybe you could try to cut through a bit from your side
and maybe we could meet in the middle, somewhere
maybe you could find a way, maybe you could find a way to love
maybe you could keep trying
just maybe
[chorus]
but that sunday when he walked out
that sunday, when his heart burst into flames
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his ways
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his life

[verse 3]
sixteen years after they have separated
she will arrive in enterprise village
deep east of the island, on a sunday afternoon and walk between the men who had been drinking
she will call him out of that shack he had been building with bachelor galvanize and crate wood
and he will come down, into the yard
barebacked and grinning in the government sun
and from just the sound of his slipper slapping, she could tell that he had nothing left but his name
and so he comes come down into the yard
and he puts his hands on his hip and he ask
he says, uh, “how you find me here? where you come from?”
same time the ravine dry, same time blue flies buzzing around the swine pens in the neighbor’s yard
but after all these years, when he really sees his first love
that wild and vibrant love
he will assess her at arms length, he will search her face for the limits of her smile
then embrace her, her beating heart to his
and they are together again
for a moment
like old fire stick
but it’s divorce papers the woman bring to serve the man
and it’s right there in enterprise village
right there on that gravel road, on that sunday
in the new settlement, on land the government either forget, don’t care about, or abandon to poor people children
that the whole dream turn upside down
mhm
[chorus]
but that sunday when he walked out
that sunday, when his heart burst into flames
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his ways
he was trying, trying, he was trying
tryna change his life

[bridge]
he was really trying

[verse 4]
they are on his veranda when the night settles in
and the cane fields rustle gently in the distance
one coffee becomes a reconstitution
they listen to the radio
in this village night, they will talk as old friends in the paraffin glow of his lamp
and two years later when she dies
it is he who reads her eulogy, before they put her in the ground

- anthony joseph lyrics

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