Steady Pull

In the 90's, quite a few female singer-songwriters got their due. Quite a few didn't, in my opinion. Jonatha Brooke is one who didn't quite get the platform she should have had. She started out with The Story years and years ago and then went off on her own a while later. Steady Pull was released on her own label, and while I don't love every song on the record, the ones that are good are OH MY GOD good. Here are the ones I love the most.

1. Walking
2. Red Dress
3. Your House
4. New Dress (with Neil Finn)
5. I'll Take It From Here
6. What We Are
7. Deny

I'm walking in your shoes, for just a mile or two
My heels are raw and torn, but I will dig them in for you
I see the pain you've known, and the seeds of hate you've sown
They're scattered on the ground, and I can barely step around
...
Insanity and pain, who will take the
Blame beyond your will and whimsy
No excuses, no more flimsy lies

I'm running out of faith
And I'm tired of saving face
And where the hell is grace
In this forsaken place

Sheesh.



Well we all get what we deserve 
I get him and you get her 
Given the chance I still defer 
And maybe we will always wonder 
Why, it came to this



Take me down to your house 
Show me where you live 
Room by room, all the things you cherish 
 Tell me where you're going 
Show me where you've been 
Year by year, all the things that you wished



I'm afraid you'll see right through me 
But I'm afraid that I will never get enough...



This next song is just incredible...well, they all are, but this record is so uplifting, so healing...

Everything that I held true has failed me 
And nothing is as clear as it once seemed 
You have told me who I am and what to do and where to go 
I have listened and I'm trapped inside your dream 

 But I'll take it from here 
I'll succeed or I will fail but I will decide 
I'll take it from here 
Catch my breath and count to ten and 
Open my eyes... 
Again



And this is God's own creation 
And it is such a familiar scene 
The endless conversation of missing you 
Of things not being what they seem 

What we are and what we were 
Will never be the same 
What we are and what we were 
Will never be the same 

So I will love without misgiving 
This crooked little heart I give to you 
'Cause there's order in the meaning 
Of all that's innocent but true



Oh my Lord, why's it taken you so long? 
To give me grace and the dignity to right these wrongs 
I will lead today, and I will follow you tomorrow 
When the gloaming of my life, brings the promise of a peaceful night 

And there's just one thing that I need to know 
That you will not deny, you will not deny me now