Arrogance
Words & Music:
Pat Drummond.
For our hero and inspiration, Jesus of Nazareth
Regardless of my own very chequered
personal history, my Christian Faith has been an indispensable
compass in my somewhat dishevelled life. This is one of my more
intensely personal songs, which was 'outed' by Karen when she
entered it, without telling me, in the Gospel section of the
Charters Towers Country Music Festival Songwriters' Awards. It
came as somewhat of surprise to to receive an award from a competition
I hadn't even realised I'd entered! One of the constant perils
of working with Karen.
I swore when I was young
That I would live life my for you
I said I wouldn't do
The things that I grew up to do
It wasn't that I wasn't taught
but I wanted my own way
Now I'm paying for my arrogance today
And though you were my beacon
in this sea of endless night
I slipped the harbour light
and sailed my boat away from sight
determined to sail by the stars
I cast the charts away
Now I'm paying for my arrogance today
And when the waves came up before me
how I cursed you from the bow
said you abandoned and deserted me
all in my darkest hour
but the truth is always harder
for the fault was always mine
It was I who left the harbour
It was I who slipped the line
Now I stand before my broken mast
and I hang my head to pray
and somewhere deep inside the storm
I hear the pilot say
"Come back to me! Come back, you see
your harbour fees are paid."
Two thousand years ago
when I sailed out on Calvary Bay
I was paying for your arrogance that day
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