Cheryl wrote this song for a friend who was going through a rough time. It describes the good and bad that we experience, and how it will all work out in the end.
I particularly like the verse:
And don't look back on the way you came
'cause nothin in the rear view is ever gonna change
There's no harm in a closing door
Maybe might have been doesn't matter anymore
Here is a YouTube clip of the song that was performed shortly after she wrote it.
- Ebb and Flow
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- Monday rolled like a feel good flick
- Every scene a good time, everybody clicked
- Tuesday tolled like a broken bell
- Falling from the steeple, pulling you as well
- Yeah, yeah, ebb and flow
- Guess the air gets stale if the wind don't blow
- Yeah, yeah, light and dark
- Right now you're moving through a cloudy part
- Yeah, yeah
- If you find when the smoke's all clear
- You're hanging on to something that isn't even there
- You're still sailing a worthy ship
- Never mind the down time, focus on the trip
- Yeah, yeah, up and down
- Let the bad times settle till the good come round
- Yeah, yeah, some things fade
- and some get started when you turn away
- Yeah, yeah
- And it's not like we don't know these days will fall behind us
- Not like you won't shake it off, chalk it up to live and learn
- So when the river of life don't flow with warmth and love and kindness
- Hunker in your boat, just relax and float
- And don't look back on the way you came
- 'cause nothin in the rear view is ever gonna change
- There's no harm in a closing door
- Maybe might have been doesn't matter anymore
- Yeah, yeah, lean on me
- I'm a whole lot stronger than I seem to be
- Yeah, yeah, you'll do fine
- You could see forever with the light you shine
- Yeah, yeah, ebb and flow
- Guess the air gets stale if the wind don't blow
- Yeah, yeah, light and dark
- Right now you're moving through a cloudy part
- Yeah, yeah
- verses 1-2 21-22 Jan, bridge and v. 3-4:14-15 Mar 2013
- (P) May 24, 2013
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