Pale Horse
(Patrick O'Connor) unreleased
This song was written in the winter of '09 right around the time the album finished up. JD asked Pat to write a song about his experience working at a Funeral Home. Being constantly surrounded by death, Pat wrote a song about dealing with the dead and then actually becoming one of them and seeing all their faces one last time before he passes into eternity.
Vs. 1
Hello my friend I hope you are well….just not as well as me.
I’ve seen you before, some other time, another place
So innocent and so discrete.
Sit across from me now and let yourself bleed
You see I’ve heard it all before
To you this is new, so different, so strange
But to me it is a common thread!
Pre-Chorus
Watch the light as it slowly fades
It brings a new day, but nothing has changed
A frozen hourglass of time
The same reasons and the same rhyme
Chorus:
Sing me away on a chorus of shame and watch me dive into your grave
Only to find that I am slipping away and further falling every day
The smile on my face is nothing to fear, it simply helps to ease the pain
And it will leave me again so soon you will see just how I’ve lived my life in vain.
Vs 2
So long my old friend, I wish you the best. I hope your journey treats you well.
But don’t be afraid, somewhere, somehow, I know our paths will cross again.
And while you’re away, you will be replaced by those who’ve grown to feel it too.
They’ll travel now where you once stood…there again if they only knew.
Pre-Chorus
The pale colors they slowly fade
And the seasons bring wind of change
Look at me I grow old with time
Still searching and hoping to find
Chorus
Vs 3
Goodbye my friends for I have come to pass, I see the room is full tonight.
Your faces so cold, haunting and still, I see the tears still in your eyes
I remember you all, as the memories flood to the front of my mind
As I bid you farewell, I am humbled in light. It looks like I passed the test of time
Pre Chorus
Watch my eyes as they slowly fade
See the new day and all it’s changed
Moving freely are the sands of time
Hello tomorrow I’ll make you mine!
Chorus
