Writing on the Wall

from Small Things Shining Bright by Edward St Moritz

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The songwriting assignment: something outside your usual genre about a subject that genre doesn't work with. So I ran with it. Or sat with it...

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4. Writing on the wall

I read your name and didn't want to know you
Thought I was alone inside this stall
Seven numbers on the side
Someone's sharpie, someone's pride
I saw the writing on the wall

Other men scrawled along beside you
Left and right for favours big and small
Invitations and abuse
Words like hammers grammar loose
I saw the writing on the wall

Bridge:

Lonesome loops and lines across the doorway
Scratches of a child pretending
to be a man
Threat and insult waiting for an answer
Raw desire etched on paint
with one lonely hand

I could stay and add to shards of stories
tell this tiny room I'm tough and tall
Sign on for posterity
but this bowl has enough of me
don't have to say a thing at all
I've seen your writing on the wall

© 2016 words and music by Edward Moll (SOCAN)

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from Small Things Shining Bright, released June 16, 2016
Vocals and Guitar: Edward St Moritz
Bass: Bruce Rumble
Slide Guitar: Don Bray
Percussion: Ray Dillard

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Edward St Moritz Barrie, Ontario

Ed lives in Collingwood Ontario.

He and Don Bray produced his first CD of original songs Small Things Shining Bright and has just completed a second project A Bit of Change with Ray Dillard.

Why a darkside navigator?
“I am responsible for the directions I take in those gray territories. I do go into depression, but I also know how to sail through it. My songs are the maps of experience there.”
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