Name: Walking on Water
Duration: P00H05M44S
Description: The oldest song on the album. Written in 2004 or so after reading too much Madeline L'Engle and Frederick Buechner

Walking on Water

from The Mend by Jason Tyler Burton

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The oldest song on the album. Written in 2004 or so after reading too much Madeline L'Engle and Frederick Buechner

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Well it's not obvious to see
But i'm the man i want to be
I've settled into my skin
I believe in angels again
But lately i've been prone to worry
That I might sink before i swim
And if this stubbornness is ballast
That's going to surely do me in

I think I'm ready to try
Walking on water
I'm going to deny gravity
Going to put my faith in something real
Going to throw out my TV

Up here under these bright lights
I know you'd rather hear the radio
And I'd rather drink but I don't dare start
Drowning this sorrow
So i'm gonna pay off all my debts
Going to sell most of what I own
Then going to move out into the wilderness
It's the only place I feel at home

And still I wonder...
Would I be here for you
Would you wait there forever and ever
I'm pressing ever onward no end in sight

So i'm going to fall down on my knees
And renew my warranty

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from The Mend, released February 29, 2012

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Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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