I wrote this song approximately 38 years ago. We started recording it about 6 years ago and just now completed it.... long time coming.
TO REACH THE SKY
Eric Welsch
Lead Vocal - Dan Odum
Back up Vocals - Eric Welsch, Tim Frazier
Drums - Jon Collins (Recorded by Nate Jones at Focus on the Family)
Acoustic Guitar - Eric Welsch
Lead Guitar - Tim Donaldson
2nd Lead Guitar - Jan Smail
Bass Guitar - Tim Frazier
Produced - Studio 401 (Georgetown, Illinois) Richard Sadowski
Give me one more beggar's promise
Give me one more hooker's dream
And I'll sow the ground you walk on
Let the tears of thousands seed
I won't be in time for the harvest
Or the morning after feast
Cause you just can't feed the masses
on just one beast
Well I took to lov'n women
When I was just a boy
And the pain it seemed to cause me
All but covered up the joy
Well they washed me in the water
And I baked upon the sand
Then they fed me to the beast
til he was man.
I was standing in the desert
When I looked into the sky
The pain was gone and I could see
The eagle flying high
I reached out and I touched him
Saw the reflection in his eyes
And I knew at just that moment
I'd reached the sky.