This is a song that compares relationships to an architectural concept...a strong partnership to that of the balance that comes from a cantilever.
lyrics
Cantilever lover for me
Can you counter all the pull of gravity
Cantilever lover so sweet
Will you carry and support the weight of being
Seems all my life’s a search to find
Someone straight to keep me aligned
You’re sound and wise and right on time
No one’s perfect but we’re perfect you and I
Cantilever lover let’s be
And we’ll make our strong foundation firm as steel
Cantilever lover of mine
And we’ll balance all the stress that life may find
Seems all my life’s a search to find
Someone straight to keep me aligned
You’re sound and wise and right on time
No one’s perfect but we’re perfect you and I
These armatures and beams
And trusses buttress you to me
Keep us even and free
Seems all my life’s a search to find
Someone straight to keep me aligned
You’re sound and wise and right on time
No one’s perfect but we’re perfect you and I
Cantilever lover indeed
If I start to fall please catch me if I need
Cantilever lover for me
Will you prop me as I hang, hold tight to me
credits
from Words In Flight- Demos,
released January 6, 2020
Words and music written by Drew Brightbill (c) 2018
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