Anthony Joseph - He Was Trying
He was trying to change his ways
He was trying to make amends
For all the promises he never kept
For all the wounds that would never be mended
For those rows of sorrows that had no ending
For the way some men steal love with lies
For always depending
On the backbone of a woman
To be strong enough to rise
Rise above what he had broken
To fix and forgive him, to give him a home within her arms
He had sent a message, and he had telephoned
But she had already left those rooms of darkness
cnd was on her way back home
But that Sunday when she walked out
That Sunday, when his heart burst into flames
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his ways
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his life
She said it's like we are on
Either side of a magical thorn bush
cnd she was trying
To cut through, to show me how brave she was
To show me her fortitude
To show me her faithfulness
cnd meanwhile I'm just sitting
On the other side calling out to me
Saying, wow, it's so hard
It's so hard to cut through
Maybe you don't have the strength
I'm pretty sure you're gonna give up
cnd she's thinking well, maybe you could try
To cut through a bit from your side
cnd maybe we could meet in the middle, somewhere
Maybe you could find a way to love
Maybe you could keep trying
But that Sunday when she walked out
That Sunday, when his heart burst into flames
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his ways
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his life
Sixteen years after they have separated
She will arrive in Enterprise Village
deep east of the island, on a Sunday afternoon, and walk between the men who had been drinking
She will call him out of that shack he had been building with bachelor galvanise and crate wood
cnd he will come down, into the yard, barebacked and grinning in the government sun
cnd from just the sound of his slipper slapping, she could tell that he had nothing left but his name
So he comes come down into the yard, and the sun hits him in his chest, he puts his hands on his hip and he ask
"How you find me here, where you come from?"
Same time the ravine dry, same time blue flies buzzing around the swine pens in the neighbour's yard
But after all these years, when he really sees his first love
That wild and vibrant love
He will assess her at arms length, he will search her face for the limits of her smile
Then embrace her, her beating heart to his, and they are together again
For a moment
Like old fire stick
But is divorce papers the woman bring to serve him
cnd is just so, right there in Enterprise Village
Right there on the gravel road, on that Sunday, in the new settlement, on land the government either forget, don't care about, or abandon to poor people children, that the whole dream turn upside down
But that Sunday when she walked out
That Sunday, when his heart burst into flames
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his ways
He was trying, trying, he was trying
Trying to change his life
They are there on his veranda when the night settles in
cnd the cane fields rustle gently in the distance
One coffee becomes a reconstitution
Then they listen to the radio
In this village night, they will talk as old friends in the paraffin glow of his lamp
Two years later when she dies
It is he who reads her eulogy, before they put her in the ground
Written by:
ANDREW SINCLAIR JOHN, ANTHONY DEREK JOSEPH, JASON CHRISTOPHER YARDE
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