Name: What's In The Way Is The Way
Duration: P00H03M53S
Description: Prompt for this week: find nearest book, open it to a random page, read the first paragraph and write a song on what it says. My book: "The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph" by Ryan Holiday. The first sentence of the paragraph I read: “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.” I wish Garageband had better string samples.

Steve Lindsley - What's In The Way Is The Way

from Round 34, Week 4 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Prompt for this week: find nearest book, open it to a random page, read the first paragraph and write a song on what it says. My book: "The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph" by Ryan Holiday. The first sentence of the paragraph I read: “Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.” I wish Garageband had better string samples.

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There's a place that we all know
We feel it in our bones
The moment has arrived
The rubber meets the road
It's no longer in the past
A memory in mind
but it hasn't happened yet
A future undefined
The here and now is where we're living
And still it seems we always miss it
Cause we don't know
What’s in the way is the way

See the problem that we make
The source of our mistakes
Is that we spend our whole life sleeping
Instead of awake
So we sacrifice the now
At the altar of our fears
And give in to the monsters
Of the past or future years
And when life turns and twists inside us (as it always will)
The obstacles render us helpless
Until we see
What’s in the way is the way

I cannot begin to know
The depths of every soul
Your story is not mine
But I'd like to think it'd show
That we cannot control what comes
The challenges we find
Are opportunities to embrace
A different frame of mind
So hold my hand, we'll go together
Heaven or hell it doesn't matter
Either way it’s still the same
Every day after day
Now we know
What's in the way
Is the way

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from Round 34, Week 4, released October 11, 2021

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