Asphalt (YaSelf Suite)

Listen to Asphalt by Richard Charles Stevens (YaSelf Suite)

Listen to YaSelf by Mutiny

Devil’s in the detail
Miss a trick and swiftly derail
Play apt pupil
Act with scruples
Beat the odds when they quadruple
.
Play apt pupil
Act with scruples
Beat the odds when they quadruple
.
Once it appeared I was headed for hell
Time saving shortcuts
I knew them all well
A lifetime of tales
But no story to tell
Hanging lopsided
Standing divided
Damned
Uninvited
The night the skies fell
The night the skies fell
The night the skies fell
The night the skies fell
The night the skies fell
.
For all the toil and the strife life put me through
(Devil’s in the detail)
.
I strive delightedly
Thrive each dawn anew
(Miss a trick and swiftly derail)
.
No longer torn
For adored all thoughts anew
(Play apt pupil
Act with scruples)
.
Enshrine the light divine sight implores renew
(Enshrine the light divine sight implores renew)
.
For all the toil and the strife life put me through
I strive delightedly
Thrive each dawn anew
No longer torn
For adored all thoughts anew
Enshrine the light divine sight implores renew
.
(Beat the odds when they quadruple)
.
Painted on its pallid lips
The moon it wore a placid kiss
Within which was a secret fit to tell
I closed my eyes
And leaned in close
No charge consigned
No tongue verbose
As one inclined
To leap in blind
I yearned to move
In fluid time
(Weaving pure light
Through the Stygian skies)
.
Weaving pure light
Through the Stygian skies
A ballad of dignified grace
At high tide
Stars all about me
Beholding my rise
To place transcendental of space and time
.
For all the toil and the strife life put me through
I strive delightedly
Thrive each dawn anew
No longer torn
For adored all thoughts anew
Enshrine the light divine sight implores renew
.
Tainted not this ageless orb
The sun absorbed my deepest thoughts
Within which was a secret caught in two minds
Then pulled taut
Divorced
(Weaving pure light
Through the Stygian skies)
.
Breathing fresh air
In the cold light of day
No longer fasting
And wasting away
Stars all about me
Upholding my claim
From brink of collapse and residual pain
.
For all the toil and the strife life put me through
I strive delightedly
Thrive each dawn anew
No longer torn
For adored all thoughts anew
Enshrine the light divine sight implores renew
.
Weaving pure light
Through the Stygian skies
A ballad of dignified grace
At high tide
Stars all about me
Beholding my rise
To place transcendental of space and time
.
Devil’s in the detail
Miss a trick and swiftly derail
Play apt pupil
Act with scruples
Beat the odds when they quadruple
.
Devil’s in the detail
Miss a trick and swiftly derail
Play apt pupil
Act with scruples
Beat the odds when they quadruple
.
Devil’s in the detail
Miss a trick and swiftly derail
Play apt pupil
Act with scruples
Beat the odds when they quadruple
.