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A New Chance (To Dance)

(2006)
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Dancing on the street’s corner
Enjoying just killing time
Spilling open words
To this brand new embrace
So enchanted and entranced

Waiting
Just waiting
For you

You who’s providing such welcomed relief
And you who’s energizing my restored belief
Wrapped up close in your caring arms
And deep in your incredible energy
This feels so wonderfully right
And I’m filled with such true joy and delight

It feels as if some fantastic healin’ light
Shines down upon my soul
And I’m starting to think that in the end
Just maybe things will be alright

A fresh new start
In love and adventure
(after all life’s only your outlook)
Some wounds go too deep to ever fully heal
Yet a small price still, considering
And one paid without regret

Dancing in the hallways
Dancing on the floors
Regained cheer
Regained bliss
An unbridled enthusiasm
For unrestrained outpourings of expression
Stranger things have happened

I’ll be found near you
Embraced and embracing
In the glow of this new lease
With this I can make it
With this I can strive

Now post a loss as-yet unequalled, unparalleled
A part of one left in a part of another
Now all but a past experience
Yet the gains are surely there
Surely? (the bittersweet recalls)

So what we once shared
Is now over and done
And passed on beyond
Will ever there even be words on it?

This bounding newfound energy
A reawakening of a dormant spirit
To share in this fresh burst of loving
Exalted with this startling one
When first met the speechlessness was mutual
                     (thanks heavens)
But more thankful still I found my voice
And in my words you heard cause to stay

You’re the reason
I’m now dancing
Why I’m done with the chancing
My refound-self reclaimed
(from a recent maiming and taming)
I couldn’t receive any greater a blessing

Overjoyed and overawed
By this overflowing emotion
Girl you’re powerful potion
A crazy beautiful wild-at-heart
And such soothing lotion
A tender and loving, trusting confidante

I couldn’t wish for anything more
Than sharing with you
This flourishing bond
Here and now I wish to commit
From this moment on
To determined perseverance
In instinctive love and service

An untamed spirit
Is the source of this bliss
This one I’ve so wickedly missed
A destined-to-be chance encounter
With a brush of your wrist
And a single look like a hook
Is all that it took
My entire world shook

It’s truly amazing
To finally again feel live
And to have back my spark
So brightly burning and blazing.