Keepsake Soul (Heavy Duty Suite)

Keepsake Soul has been published in All of Me Vol. I, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Heavy Dirty Soul by Twenty One Pilots. Featured art is by Android Jones.

Listen to Keepsake Soul by Richard Charles Stevens (Heavy Duty Suite)

See my soul
It’s here
It’s there
No loss accounting
Wear and tear
By all accounts
It’s everywhere
On other counts
It’s very rare
.
See my soul
It’s here
It’s there
No loss accounting
Wear and tear
By all accounts
It’s everywhere
On other counts
It’s very rare

The reason for its heady air
I season it with debonair
It leads me to all kinds of places
Speeds my gaze to smiling eyes

.
Happy faces never far behind

Never far behind

Happy faces never far behind
Not for I
.

Unrestrained from masquerade
No longer in disguise
Readymade for serenade
Through faith cascading eyes
Finding fresh inventive ways to innovate a life through art
Defibrillate an ailing heart
And liberate remaining parts
.
Could never trade this soul of mine
Or I would surely die
It’s all you see
That’s all of me
And very purely I
Hopscotching the open roads and skipping rope with rainbows in the sky

It’s all you see
That’s all of me
And very purely I

All of me
And very purely I

.
See my soul
It’s here
It’s there
No loss accounting
Wear and tear
By all accounts
It’s everywhere
On other counts
It’s very rare
See my soul
It’s brave
It’s bold
Amazing grace
To have
And hold
It’s every fable
Never told
Forever
In the making
.

Happy faces never far behind

Never far behind

Happy faces never far behind
Not for I
.

It’s all you see
That’s all of me
And very purely I

.
Suddenly awakened
From my slumber
Nowise torn asunder
By the distant cries of thunder
Arisen by persistent strike of lightning
.
Darkened sky now brightening
Enlivening the air
Heightening the sense of every widened eye declared
Ripening the cloistered garth
Entitling anointed path
It’s here
It’s there
By all accounts
It’s everywhere we are
.
Unrestrained from masquerade
No longer in disguise
Readymade for serenade
Through faith cascading eyes
Finding fresh inventive ways to innovate a life through art
Defibrillate an ailing heart
And liberate remaining parts
.
Could never trade this soul of mine
Or I would surely die
It’s all you see
That’s all of me
And very purely I
Hopscotching the open roads and skipping rope with rainbows in the sky