In the Hurting Time

by Corinne   Jun 5, 2008


This is a lyric that was originally part of a writing challenge from a couple of years ago to use all the song titles from an album - I chose Annie Lennox's album "Bare" - I have since revised the work, and while some song titles remain, others are gone.

In The Hurting Time
Copyright 2008 Corinne Curcio

V1
Every day I start to sing
The saddest song I've got
Missing A thousand beautiful things
I think that I have not

Pre-Chorus1
If I would just open my eyes
And forget the seconds ticking by

Chorus1
Words would no longer fall out of rhyme
And I would no longer find that I'm
Lost and forsaken and unable to climb
Out from the pavement cracks
Why has the clock stopped
In the Hurting Time

V2
My thoughts get twisted and turned
And my heart refuses to mend
Lessons have become unlearned
And the rain falls without end

Pre-Chorus - 2
If loneliness could be erased
Tears brushed away without a trace

Chorus 2
I'd no longer lean out the windowsill
Looking for an empty space to fill
Not let regret haunt me still
Oh where is my life sublime?
Why has the clock stopped
In the Hurting Time

Bridge
Hands and sands are frozen
Can't move on, can't look back
Could it be that I have chosen
To run in place on this track?

Chorus1
Words would no longer fall out of rhyme
And I would no longer find that I'm
Lost and forsaken and unable to climb
Out from the pavement cracks
Why has the clock stopped
In the Hurting Time

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  • 15 years ago

    by Cindy

    Corinne
    This is just beautiful. The Emotions coming from the words really reach out and touch the reader. What wonderful lyrics.
    Excellent job!
    Take CareCindy

  • 15 years ago

    by Trying to hold on

    Corinne, lovely gift of how creative and powerful you are in you writings that you have just shared, I am interested to know how many of the lines are titles off this album, I'm stunned at how perfect these all wrap together, you are extremely talented, its so great to have you on this site sharing these with all of us, so very inspiring, 5/5

  • 15 years ago

    by debbylyn

    Beautiful...hauntingly sad....you've written an amazing song Corinne! I love the imagery of the stopped clock...the sands of time...the hurting time...very nicely written....5/5

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