Frequent Walker: The song lyrics are about drug use, disillusionment with life, growing up in a world where things seemed to be collapsing around me. Relationships, alcoholism, it got to the point where there was nothing left but institutionalization.
Lyrics Copyright © Wendell G. Sweet 2010 ♪ ♫ ♪ Date Written;10-20-2010
Song Title: Frequent Walker Style: Alternative
Verse One:
In this world… time moves by… doesn’t stop for you or me… The ones who stop and wait are the ones who never see…
So my feet… move me on… though they’re weary of this flight… They will lead me to tomorrow, wipe the fallen from my sight…
Instrumental—————Short lead transition—————————————————–
Hook:
Pick me up… Fill my cup… Fix the damage in my head…
Fill my soul… Make me whole… Raise me from the dead…
Show my eyes what can be… shine your light so I can see…
Verse Two:
In my life… I have seen… distant dreams of futures past… And the one who filled my cup left it empty at the last…
And my eyes… tired from sight… rimmed in red and slow to see… Can’t conceive eternity from the edge of what can be…
Instrumental—————Short lead transition—————————————————–
Hook:
Pick me up… Fill my cup… Fix the damage in my head…
Fill my soul… Make me whole… Raise me from the dead…
Show my eyes what can be… shine your light so I can see…
Verse Three:
Walk alone… Through this world… Through this cold I’ve always known… Taking only what I need from the seed that has been sown…
And this world… sells itself… pretty dreams that can not be… And though we stop to look we can never truly see…
Instrumental————— Long Lead —————————————————————-
Verse Four:
Take my time… tap the glass… raise the bubbles from my cure… Pull the curtains on my pasts… and all I thought they ever were…
As my soul… Finds its way… push the darkness from my mind… Lay your words upon my heart as my rest I go to find…
Instrumental—————Short lead transition—————————————————–
Hook
Pick me up… Fill my cup… Fix the damage in my head…
Fill my soul… Make me whole… Raise me from the dead…
Show my eyes what can be… shine your light so I can see…
Verse Five:
Let my heart… lead me on… from your memories in my mind… lay your coins upon my eyes… speak your magic line by line…
As my sun… slowly sets… I will try not to forget… all the lessons from this world and the souls that I have met…
Instrumental—————Short lead transition—————————————————–
Hook / Xtro:
Pick me up… Fill my cup… Fix the damage in my head…
Fill my soul… Make me whole… Raise me from the dead…
Show my eyes what can be… shine your light so I can see… which way to walk…
Why I Wrote It:
I wrote this song in one shot, most of it came as fast as I could write it. I understood what it was as I wrote it, although the lyrics are slightly obscure, or seemed to me to be (I’ve since been told by readers that it’s not so obscure but pretty straight forward.). It’s about my life ending of course. Flirtation with suicide. Drug use. Disillusionment with the world, religion, society on every level. I spent a lot of my life that way. When I was on the streets for two years this is the way I looked at the world. Cynical, glass half full. I tried suicide, nearly succeeded. I thought how nice it would be to lay down and pull the plug. That is what this song is about. I’m not there anymore. I don’t want to encourage anyone to be there either, but some of us spent years there and never talked about it..
There is a stigma attached to drug use, alcohol use and seeking help for those things. To get better I had to look past that. Ignore the world. Focus on me. Once I did that I healed from the inside out. I didn’t do that myself. It took people I was able to open up to, to trust. People who work in the fields of drug use, alcohol use, mental health and who are devoted to helping the people they meet… The video depicts some of that life I led and the people who had their own lives to live but they helped anyway. The ending is where I would have been… Hope you find it interesting, even helpful, Dell… #addictionrecovery #music #dellsweet #frequentwalker #selfpenned #videoviral #foryoupagereels