Kevin Max - If I Could Make It Work In Life

From the album: Canticle of The Plains

LYRICS:

I sit on a piano stool and I make up songs for these men who
come in with dust on their faces and mud on their boots
From these places that I'll never go.
I sleep in a rented bed with a woman who gives me
what lttle I get of the love that we'd like to imagine is left
Of the love that we never did know
I slip out and scribble a note that reads like a million books
It's a four cent nickel for my dime store theme, but it sure reads good

And If I could make it work in life
Like it works on paper
If the love that I describe
Could be anything but words
Then I would wipe my eyes
I'd dry this ink
I'd trade my pen in on a pair of wings
And I would... I would fly
If I could only make it work in life

And at the end of every night I add up the tips and I count for what's mine
I come down to a thing that amounts to a lie
And the sum of it all I'm afraid
Is less then what I know I need
to slip beneath the surface of my forgeries
Where I buried my hopes where sometimes my dreams
Still stun me and steal me away.
And I can still hear Dine Bikeyah call just like we were kids
I could tell you all about it in a song
But Lord I wish

If I could make it work in life
Like it works on paper
If the love that I describe
Could be anything but words
Then I would wipe my eyes
I'd dry this ink
I'd trade my pen in for a pair of wings
And I would fly
If I could only make it work in life, Oh, If I could only make it work in life


Chords of this song:
http://www.azchords.com/k/kevinmax-tabs-24998/ificouldmakeit-tabs-351449.html

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/k/kevin_max/if_i_could_make_it_crd.htm

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[JesusFreak1john17]

Listen closely. Michael Tait's voice haunts the chorus. I'm almost positive he's doing background vocals. This was on dc Talk's rarest album, Left And Right.

[DarkShek]

You think so?

[JesusFreak1john17]

I'm positive. It might have been a dc Talk song at one point that was ditched and Kevin used it himself. You can clearly hear Tait doing BGV's throughout the track.

[DarkShek]

Yes... You're Right

[CrashingThroughMusic]

where did you get this song??

[DarkShek]

@CrashingThroughMusic

this song is from "Canticle of the Plains" written by Rich Mullins...

[kingEMINEMZ]

love this guys hair and deff feelin the musik

love this

[SunflowerAim]

Thank you for posting this. I'm a huge of DC Talk and hearing Kevin's work was a treat.

[webgirls801]

Dc talk should do a reunion album

[MsMartich]

this song always makes me sad...

[amylh322]

@disposedsoul - without even checking, i knew exactly what you had to be talking about :) His voice is just indescribable (at least by me and my suddenly limited vocabulary)

[amylh322]

@DarkShek - just wanted to write that Rich shares writing creds with Beaker and Mitch McVicker too :) Amazing, amazing guys.

[amylh322]

@JesusFreak1john17 - really? I didn't know it was anywhere but Canticle of the Plains, i'll check it out! :). Michael is on that recording as well, if you haven't heard his "Oh My Lord"... oh that song makes me cry and just be so grateful to Jesus every time i hear it! Amazing singers and amazing writers for that musical - Rich Mullins, Beaker, and Mitch McVicker.

[babanyul]

Kevin, Your voice is amazing and so special. I like Your music so much and DC talk also. I wish You all the best, God bless. :)

[brbuck159]

where can i find this song? i really want it...i love his stuff...

[PJB1775]

@JesusFreak1john17 What information do you have on Left and Right? I've never heard of it, nor am I able to find any information on it. Was it a single where this song was a b-side, or a full length album?

[judahkome]

This is from Canticle of the Plains, a musical based on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Composed by Rich Mullins, Mitch McVicker, and Beaker, the musical had a short run, but it lives on in the soundtrack, which features vocals from Michael Tait, Kevin Max Smith, and Leigh Bingham-Nash (note that these three did not perform in the actual musical).

[LadyBeth24]

I love his voice...and his music is always awesome!