Daniele's music is a breath of fresh honesty and often what seems almost too close a look at the reality of our human frailty. Be prepared in listening to this weaving of poetry with unrestrained frankness to take a journey with her into brokenness and vulnerability and possibly end up with a strong desire to die to self and take up your cross.
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Songs{lyrics}
{Sometime soon I will rustle up a few more songs for you to read. Until then, here's a few from my last EP and maybe from this next album...}
Memorize
Memorize the lines between you and the sky
The places that you've run dry
Because you don't get good sleep of a night
Where do you think that your God hides?
Behind rusted intellect
Behind clouded men and lies?
And isn't it just hard to start anew?
When you try your trust again and you're lied to
You're beaten to the end of yourself
Not by someone else but by brokenness
You didn't want to race anyway
Now you can't stop running
Memorize the lines between you and the sky
The places that you've run dry
Because you don't get good sleep of a night
Where do you think that your God hides?
Behind rusted intellect
Behind clouded men and lies?
Count your measures learn them well
And when your will fails you again sing them to yourself
You don't need someone else
To prove who you are
It's not that kind of race anyway
When you can't stop running
Daniele Clark
Don't Wash My Feet
Still I turn and I turn, one more sleepless night, one more page
Can I waive and re-write my rights and wrongs everyday, everyday
Your'e a little bit old for me, but I'm a little bit lost
You're a little bit more clean and a little like God
You're a little bit good for me but I'm a little more hurt
I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet
I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet
Hard and sure to stand unsoftened mixed in wavering, in line drawing
I'd like to help in my helplessness, I'd like to save but I can't save myself
Your'e a little bit old for me, but I'm a little bit lost
You're a little bit more clean and a little like God
You're a little bit good for me but I'm a little more hurt
I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet
I'm a little dirty, don't wash my feet
I'm a little dirty please wash my feet
I'm a little dirty don't wash my feet
Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)
Still
Still to feel a little empty, feel a little lacking, feel a little lost. Still to feel a little quiet a little lack of motion a little peace was gone
You to have and hold, to hold my hope inside your soul
You to push the pull further on toward you, you are all I know
Need a constant in a churning, quite stoked and ready burning, a little peace with God. Need a strong and quiet waking a trust is in the making. A little hold is all
You like the sun to rise again as I always fall. You are all I want you're all I need you as I grow old.
Grasp beyond the fears strong holding, a groping for a molding and taking up the cross. Grasp the solid love you leave me, though you never leave me, the constant is your love.
You to have and hold, to hold my hope inside your soul
You to push the pull further on toward you, you are all I know
Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)
Less Than Constant
Please write me off as something less than constant
As somehow undeserving, as someone who has lost you now
Please pass me by as someone with a past
Who fails the ones she loves the most and may never get past you
I, I thought I'd grown in loving
I hope I last in staying and have found peace in lasting
You, you're such a calming steady
True and that's enough. But have I learned to trust?
Please love me less just in case I hurt you
As I'm known to stumble where others fall in love
Please give me grace, though I think I don't deserve it
All these ways you think I'm perfect, well that's your only fault
Daniele Clark (Honestly Daniele - The EP)
Poetry{Blog}
:: To Blog is to journal in a public forum : To Journal is to write : To write is to pass time on paper ::
Feels like a year, like nothing
In three days it would be our anniversary
I count it with pulse, in heartbeats
As I reach for a handle to shut the door again
I touch a spot in my mind that is yours.
There are millions of them, no, more.
No two alike but every one the same...
Every one poignant, sharp... all beautiful
One year of love for one year of heartbreak, an even exchange
I closed the door and found myself wishing for strange things
Half hoping that you never learned to walk away
Half hoping you would stand up and hurt me again
So I had reason to feel this much pain
And maybe this time I would scream, cry or fight back.
No, love doesn't end it's torture, time doesn't put you out of your misery
Daniele :: August 2010
Suicide Ride for Hope South Dakota
We went from Sturgis to Bear Butte SD on a Suicide Ride for Hope
To raise awareness about the suicide epidemic caused by poverty and oppression among the Native American's specifically on the Pine Ridge/Rosebud Reservation
Here are a few statistics, though seeing things first hand, has a much bigger impact.
There is so much need, not just here, but all over the country, people are hurting and hopeless.
We, especially if we call ourselves Christians... do not have time to waste in apathy.
The suicide rate is 5 times higher on the Pine ridge/Rosebud Reservation than the National Average...
The Number One Killer is alcoholism...
70% of highschool students drop out...
Pine Ridge is one of the poorest communities in America where the average income is $4K a year
and 97% live below the poverty line
The average life expectancy on these reservations for men is a low 48 and 52 for women...
I know this is true, I met a woman yesterday who was 42 and looked about 70, this is common
I know not everyone is called to work on reservations or even to travel, but there is so much need everywhere, look for where God can use you where you're at today.
Daniele Clark :: August 2010
What You Don't Know, Can Hurt You
What you don't know can't hurt you
So you don't know anything anymore
See just where your fortune takes you
Take self assurance at least that far
Don't be afraid anymore
Nothing can fight you but your own silent heart
Don't beat it, it's still a beating
It's a loving every minute
I know it's still there
Mine still knows it's rhythm
But what you don't know won't hurt you
Daniele Clark :: End of Spring (without you) 2010
Unblind {downstairs in my head}
Your noise is dark
No voices picturesque
Like pigeons roosting
Where anointing breathed
A slow trains de-rail
Majesty in starkness
And light prevails
Spotlights deception
And rigid pre-ops
Pretend you're teal green
Pencils write thru me
You're stiff hearted
Lovers will find out
Last nights dream boat
In the mornings nightmares
Shirk & groan & cross you
Smoothe betrayals chewing
Smugly on flesh beside you
No hindsight to what lies before
No microscope feels what's behind you
Almighty incandescent light
Your face covered and tight
In the peeling daylight God
A healing love asks not begging
Screaming no Patient answers
Unblind your sweet heart
The left brain doesn't know
What the right hand is doing
Daniele Clark :: 2010
If Love Is A Choice
I guess this is my chance
To make something great
To rise and to fall
To silently fight dreams
To find friends enemies
To weigh rights and wrongs
To know who I can't trust
And to question my placement
In time & in heartache
I will wake and will live
(As it runs through my system)
As love begs for hate
As pain bleeds through joy
As treaties they ripen
As age mellows & shapes
As backbones straighten
All prides melt and fade in
You write and you post them
I guess love is a choice
The best or the fastest
The strong or the easy
The woman or a yes man
The vice or a best friend
The bed or the children
The fear of commitment
In sickness or health
Through death or thru self
And over and over again
I guess this is my chance
I wake and I live
I guess love is a choice
But I already made it
I can't make it backwards
You can't push me forward
Don't speak in backhand
If love is a choice, you haven't made it
Daniele Clark :: 2010
The sky is my canopy
I had to get outside for awhile
So I wouldn't suffocate
I headed up the driveway
and I stopped, I stopped
and I shook and I stood
I was probably dizzy
Things where a little constricting
I probably would have cried
but I was preoccupied with hyperventilating
I was preoccupied with the life that fears are making
I thought I would lose my mind
But I didn't because after an hour of breathing hard
I came back
If I had lost my mind I'd have slept outside
for my health
If I had lost my mind I'd have stayed inside
......
The sky is my ceiling the branches are my canopy the leaves are the thoughts that keep me wanting and aching
Beauty keeps me motivated, it's a supplement... when I remember to take it, it strengthens my limbs
When I forget to look beyond what's roaring around me I fade and weaken, I chasten myself...
God is a Father that isn't afraid, He won't respond in accidental ways
I don't have to remind myself he's human and I don't have to forgive the insecurities that make him just like me
Love is understanding and understanding is trust, trust leads to understanding... all of which live in forgiveness
If I don't forgive myself I don't believe anything, I dont' trust, I don't love...
I don't understand and I'm harsh, but not on purpose, to those who love me most
When I start to forgive those who hurt me deepest with the least intent to harm me, I start to believe in God
When I believe in love I understand God is near, I understand He is not a man and He does respect persons after all,
because love and respect are entwined,just beside trust and obedience.
Perfect love casts out fear... If you're still so afraid it's because you don't understand your God.
You don't understand Him if you're still distrusting Him, you don't know how to love,
because you've made love finite and constrained, you wouldn't write that on paper but it's on your heart.
When you let God love you, you love yourself, you love others, loving others is saying,
I may not understand why you are who you are or why you do what you do but I forgive you,
To you sometimes that may even mean saying, I forgive you for being who you are...
(but then there's also remembering to look closely at the heart beyond the actions... that can be hard...
I spend hours putting myself in other peoples shoes and places to remember to love and to let them know I hope in them)
saying I forgive you means I love you, it means I believe in you, it means I trust you
It means in fullness that I know you will hurt me sometimes but i also know your heart is for me and for God
And I'm willing to love you which means I hope and believe the best...
when someone is believed in and hoped in it makes them a new creature
God is love. He makes all things new
When people understand themselves more and understand how God sees them,
they may let themselves stop trying to find all the answers on their own,
They may stop trying to prove other people are wrong,
instead of hoping that they act on the right that's in their hearts
I may try to spend more time showing that I care
so that I then have a platform to speak the truth in love from
Daniele Clark 2008
To Love (Suicide To Dignity)
Hats off again to love
You gave it your best tries
and after all is quiet and the tumult dies
You'll slip out the back door to stand at the corner crying
Oh tear stained eyes you'll stay
You'll sleep with hope
Though your heart on waking dies and breaks and dies
Though your backhand weakens as sharpness heightens
You'll sleep awake,
You'll sleep alive
In your other pocket, where he kept his Bible
You'll ask your Mother if pain is dying and she'll get more tired
So you'll know she's right.
If he comes knocking,
He won't come knocking...
He'll be running, he'll be driving, anger soothes and justifies it
When there's crying,
When he's crumbled,
Like he has been and nothing's comfort
You'll lie there reaching
But you won't touch him
He'll be grieving and you'll be watching
It will break you, you will love him
Pain won't see it, you'll get shot at
Love revives you
You will know him
Till he dies
And how his heartbeats
How his hands rest
No ones sees it,
No one has to
Love will kill you and will wake you
It will keep you
It will bless him
It will hold him
Till you die
Love will live, you will die
Daniele Clark 2009
Truth Finds You
Oh, by the way, time goes on
just beneath us
in the hallway
after noon
Nothing escapes us things filter through
on the back steps
in the black soil
like gardening
Birds have freedom we don't exercise
we know our lines
find the limits
and walk through
If your motives question you
find their source
their timbre
and birthplace
When you falter within, I see it
I swallow and digest
far away in here
nothings lost
As you search for home and birthrights
take inventory
invest in mirrors
look for God
In fear you won't trust anywhere
Time will prove this
You will prove nothing
things happen
God may use braille if you need it
you may use God
or use me as shelter
truth finds you
Daniele Clark 2009
p.s. a blog is like a journal, I keep years in my journals :: Daniele