Collaboration with ES From a poem by Jerry Willard of Electric Shadow. The words Jerry had written made the melody!!! The search for unconditional love also involves searching one's self....
After having read this insightful poem on Electric Shadow's site, here at Soundclick, Jerry Willard of Electric Shadow graciously consented to allow my attempt to set "True Fortune" to music.....but, it seems the words themselves made the music!!!! The search for unconditional love involves searching one's self as well as those in your life and then even into the most abstract concepts of life, weighing one's self in the balance...
True Fortune
Jerry Willard
Capo 1st fret
D A Em
You know true fortune doesn't come easy
D A Em
And sometimes it doesn't come at all
D A Em
But the little voice inside my head says
DA Em
If you want it go ahead and take the fall
Refrain #1
F G Dsus4D
Go ahead and trace the mystery
F G Dsus4D
Check the footprints in the hall
F G Dsus4D
The dawn is slowly breaking
G F D
and time won't wait at all
D A Em
Now you've got yourself in deeper
D A Em
In a maze, you twist and turn
D A Em
Don't leave any stone uncovered
DA Em
For this fortune, you must earn
Break
B7AB7A
DAEm
DAEm
FGDsus4D
FGDsus4D
GFD
Refrain #2
B7 A
How do you check the balance with your eyes closed?
B7 AAm
Is there really true justice for all?
F G Dsus4D
Go ahead and trace the mystery
G FD
Check the footprints in the hall
D A Em
At the start you were so clever
D A Em
Stalking at every move
D A Em
You were sure, you had the answers
DA Em
But the answers came too soon
Refrain #1
D AEm
In your time of desperation
DA Em
Your life flashes before your eyes
D A Em
You see all the truth before you
DA Em
And again, you hear all the lies
Refrain #3
B7A
Did you count on things that were pointless?
B7 AA7
And gamble on things that were sure?
D AEm
Have they promised the road isn't rocky?
D AEm
And the future to be secure?
Refrain #4
F G Dsus4D
Go ahead and trace the mystery
F G Dsus4D
Check the footprints in the hall
FG Dsus4D
True fortune is called love
GF D
And this is free to all........