Ballpark (Nex Machina Suite)

This arrangement of Ballpark pays homage to Dark Shivers by Ari Pulkkinen, Harry Krueger, and Tuomas Nikkinen.

Listen to Ballpark by Richard Charles Stevens (Nex Machina Suite)

While I may have changed
I remain the same way
Still take aim the same way
Though with no intent to maim
For I made my nature plain way back
Before I got snagged in a trap
Implored not to be bagged and tagged
Was all but done for
That was that
Made a run for some place safe
To take stock while I stopped the clock
And not a lot arose to show such hopelessness as chosen lot
Frozen to the spot so long
My hopeful heart fell open
Tears were welling
Fears compelling
Years repenting
Clearly venting
Nearly spent and yet well ventured
Blew a kiss at misadventure
Knew that this had been my ledge
And hedged a bet I’d found its centre
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Hazy shades of winter in my slipstream
Gone the mist enlisted to restrict me
On incline
In honoured time
I’m in the ballpark swinging
With a pitching arm for hitting mark consistently
.
Felt appeased to be the me released back from captivity
Actively enraptured in more aspirant activity
Imminently set to leap
Requested senses then took leave
Stress and tension left the scene
While best intentions led proceedings
Zest and keen
Redressed a theme
Before now seen as questionable
And righted every wrong believed correctable
Way less cruel
The fate awaiting
Basis for exhilarating
Illustrating pathway through the maze my heart facilitated
.
Frozen to the spot so long
My hopeful heart fell open
Tears were welling
Fears compelling
Years repenting
Clearly venting
Nearly spent and yet well ventured
Blew a kiss at misadventure
Knew that this had been my ledge
And hedged a bet I’d found its centre
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Hazy shades of winter in my slipstream
Gone the mist enlisted to restrict me
On incline
In honoured time
I’m in the ballpark swinging
With a pitching arm for hitting mark consistently
.
Smile lines for my troubles
Huddled round and found a gown for every frown that I’d thrown down
For I now owned the here and now
Clearly spent of years repenting
Blew a kiss at misadventure
Knew that this had been my ledge
And hedged a bet I’d found its centre
.
On the mend
Belonged again
Demons crept
Was onto them
Feelings clear
Felt too sincere
To ever once
Be wronged again
.
Lone gone were the moody blues
Deluding me to snooze and lose
Bamboozling with gloomy news
Of unusually muted hues
.
Lone gone were the moody blues
Deluding me to snooze and lose
Bamboozling with gloomy news
Of unusually muted hues
Knew the truth had set me free
To see renewed the best of me
Lady luck was blushing as she blew a kiss suggestively
.
Rushing on the pink champagne
That tickled me to think
My brain once pickled
Tossed the script
And solved the riddle locked within
Middle ground profoundly raising
Swivelled round and found my place in given ground to stick around and ring around the dandy daisies
.
Ring around the dandy daisies
Ring around the dandy daisies
Ring around the dandy daisies
Ring around the dandy daisies
Dandy daisies
Dandy daisies
Ring around the dandy daisies
Dandy daisies
Dandy daisies
Ring around the dandy daisies
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.

Hazy shades of winter in my slipstream
Gone the mist enlisted to restrict me
On incline
In honoured time
I’m in the ballpark swinging
With a pitching arm for hitting mark consistently
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.
Leant into the breeze to reach the zephyr
Within which eased one feather of forever
.