Name: By The Pond
Duration: 5 min 19 s
Channel: Larry Ludwick
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By The Pond

Larry Ludwick

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Profound lessons from simple acts.

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Larry Ludwick

Electronica, New Age, Smooth Jazz and some Classical.

Hard to place my music in one category. It is a mixture of Electronica, New Age, Smooth Jazz and even some Classical.

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Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #88

Peak in subgenre #9

Author

Larry Ludwick

Rights

2009

Uploaded

June 07, 2009

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MP3 12.2 MB • 320 kbps • 5:19

Lyrics

I took a tiny pebble
And I threw it in a pond.
It sank down to the bottom
Where the silt and mud abound.
And up upon the surface,
The ripples raced away
To the shores both near and far
At the darkening of day.

I thought then of our tiny lives,
I thought of where we go,
To the base of a great mystery
Of which we do not know.
I thought of what we leave behind
As wavelets to the shore
Of the edges of some memory
Growing fainter evermore.

Never treat your life
As the casting of a stone.
Know that from your wake
Your life's worth will be shown.
Echo to the shore
Every work of good you've done.
Never chance the hour
Of the setting of the sun.

I took a tiny feather
And I threw it on the rill.
It raced atop the current
Was pulled without a will
And when it reached the edge
Of the falls not far away
It plunged out of my sight 
At the darkening of day.

I thought then of our tiny loves,
I thought of where they go,
To the edge of a great falling off
With sorrows far below.
I thought of those who are left behind
As standing on the shore
Of the edges of some memory
Growing fainter evermore.

Never treat your love
As a drifting feather thrown.
See that from your heart
Your life's worth will be known.
Cup it in your hand
In prayer it's never done.
Never chance the hour
Of the setting of the sun.

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