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It Is Not Enough

from Guard the Spark by Kristopher Wright

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Your thoughts like a bow and string
Where melody intertwines
The carefully constructed lines
Of the songs that you sing

I can sense all your love and rage
Your passion’s beyond a doubt
But how is that working out
As you look from the stage?

When you’re pouring your heart out for years
And the audience never appears?

It is not enough to hope for comfort
It is not enough to be sincere
It is not enough to wish for something
It is not enough to hope they’ll hear

I’ve seen how you guard the spark
But how can it ever last?
The words never seem to pass
The proscenium arch

If you want to persevere
Acknowledge you must dismiss
Your dueling antagonists
Ambition and fear

With that cold contradiction inside
You will always be unsatisfied

It is not enough to hope for comfort
It is not enough to be sincere
It is not enough to wish for something
It is not enough to hope they’ll hear

Now just as the curtain’s drawn
You’re burning like firewood
That each line is understood
And their moved by your songs

And then shower their praise down on your soul
Well, my friend, that’s beyond your control
It is not enough to hope for comfort
It is not enough to be sincere
It is not enough to wish for something
It is not enough to hope they’ll hear

It is not enough to count your sorrows
It is not enough to sing your tears
It is not enough to need them forever
It is not enough to hope they’ll hear

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from Guard the Spark, released July 7, 2020
Electric Piano & Drums: Stephanie Wright
Everything Else: Kristopher Wright

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Kristopher Wright Austin, Texas

Kris is too tired to write yet another biography in the third-person in an attempt to trick you guys into thinking he has a publicist or something. Just listen to the songs or don't. I don't care anymore.

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