{"id":679,"date":"2020-11-12T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=679"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:46:20","slug":"anchor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=679","title":{"rendered":"Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anchor\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OxE2mkGYr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a song I wrote not long after my dad passed away. It hasn&#8217;t made it onto a record yet but maybe it will someday. It&#8217;s a song I return to every month or so, sung teary-eyed in my basement with the angels surrounding me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<i>Sometimes when I drive<br>When nobody&#8217;s with me<br>My voice fills the night<br>But nobody hears<br>My prayer of goodbye<br>My plea for your memory to survive<br>Maybe keep you alive<br><br>&#8217;cause you were a light when living grew darker<br>You were a calm in worrying water<br>More than a calm, more like an anchor<br>Anchor of faith and hope and love<br><br>What more of a life<br>Could anyone ask for<br>Than to live it most kind<br>And to leave a soft trail<br>Along which we&#8217;re still lined<br>Our gaze chasing after your blue sail<br>Rising up through the pale<br><br>&#8217;cause you were a light when living grew darker<br>You were a calm in worrying water<br>More than a calm, more like an anchor<br>Anchor of faith and hope and love<br><br>Nowhere, how did you go there?<br>What is this world without you now?<br><br>&#8217;cause you were the light when living<br>And you were the calm in worrying water<br>More than a calm, more like an anchor<br>Anchor of faith and hope and love<br>An anchor of flesh and bone and blood<\/i>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\"> Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=675\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"675\">When I Put the Record On &#8211; 11\/06\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=669\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"669\">Bound to Be &#8211; 10\/30\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=664\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"664\">Lost in America &#8211; 10\/23\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=656\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"656\">In My Head &#8211; 10\/16\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=652\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"652\">Start Again &#8211; 10\/9\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=642\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"642\">Morning Sounds &#8211; 10\/2\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=632\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"632\">Saint Jude &#8211; 9\/25\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=622\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"622\">1970s &#8211; 9\/18\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=610\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"610\">Blue Sky Song &#8211; 9\/11\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">Midnight Ghost &#8211; 9\/4\/2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song I wrote not long after my dad passed away. 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