The world for an infant is full of challenges and endless mystery. One minute life is full of tears while the next filled with smiles and uncontainable joy. With little warning their kicks expressing frustration and discomfort can turn into kicks and wiggles steeped in euphoric energy. Yet, despite all its imperfections and hardships most infants and children become enthralled with life.
The song is entitled starting at the end, because all of our setbacks and disappointments, our inhibitions and unrealistic expectations are just part of the journey. In the end those of us who find joy in life find ourselves just like the infant completely enthralled with life despite its mysteries and uncertainty, its frailties and disappointments.
Every life is an answer
Yet mystery will remain
Every life is a miracle
Again and again
The beauty I do see
I feel, become and be
lyrics
Starting at the End 9/17/11
Every heart is uneasy
vulnerable yet inspired
The intimate and the familiar are
what we’re born to desire
Every cell of my body
lives and dies
Each pore is a sentinel
Sentience sublime
Words sprout like flowers
festoon my emotional world
While we all walk the path
Many wander astray
Obstacles and hurdles
Give the journey pain
Inhibitions and fantasy
Short cuts done in vain
The path I walk in solitude
I long to share the terrain
The beauty I do see
I feel becoming me
Every life is an answer
Yet mystery will remain
Every life is a miracle
Again and again
The beauty I do see
I feel, become and be
Life is its own answer
No riddle to unfold
Certainty is a harsh master
Makes the living cold
The beauty we unfurl
Has me melt into the world
Starting at the end, we're starting at the end
credits
from Beacons,
released April 9, 2016
Vocals Jim Guido
Sax Jim Guido
Bass Jim Guido
Guitar Jim Guido
Keyboards Jim Guido
Drums Radix Faruq
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