The Only Ones Who Can Really Hurt Us (Are The Ones We Truly Love)

I've been writing. I've been busy. Shortly after the last post I went to ground for a while. Then came something of a moment of inspiration and now I'm in the middle of a maelstrom of meetings and emails about a fundraiser for the end of 2010.

In the meantime, I've started working on some new tunes. I played one of them, "In The Eyes Of The Storm" to close my gig at Phibbers earlier this week. It was tremendous. I sung it for the first time at the soundcheck. Literally. Then closed the set with it, and my God, it all came flooding back. Love runs deep.

Something prompted me on Sunday to think about how the ones that we truly love are the only ones who can really hurt us. So, I had a hook. Then something else triggered the rest of the words this evening. And now we have a song, here are the lyrics:


The only ones who can hurt us (Are the ones we truly love)

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
The only ones who can really hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
or whether you can ask,
“did I try enough?”,

We lose friends and lovers,
like reeds swept away in the flood,
because in a single word,
they leave us in mud.

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
The only ones who can really hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.

Because they stand by us,
when push comes to shove,
then fall from our grasp,
to comeback wearing gloves.

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
The only ones who can hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.

We tear down walls
to let them into our hearts,
only to find their editing pen,
has deleted our part.

But it doesn't matter
if they turn us to stone,
they remain even once,
they have flown.

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
The only ones who can really hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.

Some crave beauty,
wealth and fame,
But I'll keep their love,
and its ice and pain.

It isn't about money, guns or blood,
The only ones who can really hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.

You can't hurt me no more,
no one can hurt me no more,
won't let you hurt me no more,
no one's gonna hurt me no more.
The only ones who can hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.
The only ones who can hurt us,
are the ones we truly love.