The Good Fight is a song that I began a while ago and put away for a bit. It’s a bit of a melancholy song, and maybe not what I really wanted to follow up Homecoming with, but it’s a song that really has been on my mind recently and one that I wanted to finally finish.
This song somehow seems even more relevant today than when I began it, which I guess is good for the song but not such a great commentary on the state of the world. It’s not a protest song, but it’s a song about protest. When the song was first written, the battle imagery was metaphorical, but we live in strange times.
Instrumentation is electric and acoustic guitar, piano, and shaker.
A day after posting to SoundCloud, I received this message from a lister. Now, for all I know she’s a bot, but I’m going to choose to believe that I made an actual connection to an actual person. It makes creating music a lot more rewarding that way!
Many thanks to Coleen Colon for her vocal contributions to the song, which really elevates it. Please enjoy…
Listen to "The Good Fight"
Lyrics:
You’re crawling in from today’s battlefield,
You’ve got the tears and rage from wounds that never seem to heal
And I wonder every time you do, how long can this go on before you’re through?
And though I say the war’s not yours to fight
I know you’ll not be done as long as there are wrongs to right
so the one atop the barricade and the one down in the trench is always you
“I have fought the good fight
I have finished the race
I have fought the good fight
I have kept the faith.”
So once again, you’ll die on a hill
leading the battle charge to change the world through force of will
’cause no price is too high to pay when you fight for what is right and what is true
So I’ll be here to dry the tears that come at night
Pick you up, dust you off, see you go and charge again into the fight
to struggle in the wars that you can’t win but you can’t ever bear to lose
“I have fought the good fight (keep your head down now)
I have finished the race (but there’s always one more)
I have fought the good fight (keep your head down now)
I have kept the faith.”