We’ve hit Hard Rock

The trouble with attempting hard rock so soon after heavy metal is the potential to balk. Luckily this sort of shit doesn’t bother me.

Touching Story

Father went further than faith healers would 
Mother's what mattered he muttered but good
Brothers insist I broadcast the fact
You're only as good as your final act
It's a touching story

Friends now depend on a diplomatic jest yeah
Policing the pleases, ranking the thanks
Old chums still wielding charms
the armour of amour safest arms

touching story

The fingers that linger on buttons and batons
thumbed through manuals describing grabbing
a piece of the piece de resistance
lust in a sense lost innocence
 
The weird have won a ward
in the inn of the unexplored
The leisurely joints apply pressure points
to the need that exceeds all the others anoints
[CHORUS]

Soft rock sample

Is it common to like music across the soft and hard rock spectrum? Of course I like Carole King and Cat Stevens even if my tastes run to groups with disgusting names like the Butthole Surfers and Dead Kennedys. Rumours, the top selling album of the seventies, confirms the continuing popularity of this accent on melody and acoustic yearning.

A Common Misconception

I could explain the pain 
I could make it plain
reference it repeated-ly in the refrain
insist at each instance til it drove you
In 'tsa common misconception

I'd dissect the neglect in a dismal dissertation
on the days of desertion and desperation
stitched up and stuck in this situation
where the care that was there for discarding
[CHORUS]

You had me at hello come hell or high water
fed lines til I'm on the lam til the slaughter
Don't do things by halves and you give me no quarter  
 [C]
 
Am I calming down am I coming down
rendered upended as you were around
surrender to the tender for our surrounds

[CHORUS]