Another Walks Beside (for Steve Killingbeck)

...wrote this 10 days ago after listening to some of Steve's songs...initially intended it as a kind of homage to the great songwriter, but the song took its own course. I contacted Steve (https://soundcloud.com/spanishlies) the next day to find he'd just returned from the hospital. So glad you're well, Steve, and hope you like this little musical offering. Your music inspires me...thank you! Another Walks Beside (Brian Peters) The blind shall lead the blind I only know what’s left behind I deucedly follow the arrow of time I can do no other And I grow my grain In the wind and rain And I harvest the pain For my fodder Whate’er befall, whate’er betide Another walks beside [short interlude 1] A crying falcon glides I leave undone to where she hides The craggy shore behoves a guide For foe or brother And I blow my horn To the onward storm Fold my fingers fastly on To the rudder How long the road, how rough the ride Another walks beside [ragged harmonica solo] Forsake the marriage feast The unchaste bride, the knowing beast The drunken bellicose great high priest Takes a lover [short interlude 2] May love abound, may faith abide And another walk beside