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This House

from Just Another Day by Dan McKinnon

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This House


This house from where you watched the world go by
This house touched here and there with childhood’s eyes
Every surface your blank page, a self-painted gilded cage
With bluebirds flying free
Painted flowers on the stair blooming everywhere
Now here for all to see within this house

These hands could only do so much
These hands now curled and spent around the brush
Did you paint away the pain, paint away the tears and the misery
While painting stories from the past, times that did not last
Childhood’s memories within these hands

These eyes witness to the passing ways
These eyes now glancing from a stranger’s gaze
They saw the oxen and the cart, they were the window to your heart
Open wide enough to breathe
Painting brightly coloured scenes, pictures found in dreams
Only you could see with these eyes

This house now silent witness to your life
This house once filled with hardship and with life
Yet does it guard unspoken dreams
Preserve silent memories unseen by curious eyes?
Quietly waiting for the brush
Your loving tender touch to caress it one more time
This house

© Dan McKinnon

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from Just Another Day, released June 23, 2008

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Dan McKinnon Halifax, Nova Scotia

Blessed with a glorious baritone voice, a graceful mastery on guitar, and a hearty laugh that delights any room, Dan McKinnon has carved out his own unique, musical path. From early beginnings in the coffee houses, pubs and bars of Atlantic Canada, to yearly tours throughout the UK, Dan’s performances reveal an enduring respect for the past, tempered by a profound attachment to the present. ... more

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