Living Loving Thing (For Jean) (Close to the Heart Songs, 2016, Kerry Belcher, all rights reserved)
with Dirk Johnson on Piano and Fern Mitchell singing BGVs

Every single day, we make choices. Even if we decide to keep doing things the same, we make an unconscious decision to glorify the past because everything around us is static and changing at the speed of light. This song celebrates the decision to choose life in a relationship and make things right as we go…to understand that relations grow based on the foundations we lay. If there’s a bad place in the relationship take the time and put forth the painful efforts to get real and fix it!

It’s green and growing, it’s roots are deep-It’s strong and healthy, it’s not asleep
It starts down deep inside and slides up to your blue eyes That flash like lightning in the sky Chorus Every inch of the road, every leaf covered straight stretch-Every beat of your heart matches the rhythm of mine; Every harsh word and wasted hour rushes back to haunt me I declare, like a freshly flowing spring Our love is a living, loving thing v2
It’s dead and rotten,It’s black as night-The emptiness I had inside without you in my life
I’ve been repurposed, reclaimed I’ve been set free-since the day your love came here and rescued me Chorus