Pain and Ecstasy

• Pain and Ecstasy  (Behind the song)

  This song focuses on a contrast. That between what soldiers face and common citizens. Our world is filled with entertaining gadgets that produce an exaggerated ecstasy or pleasure. On the other side are soldiers whose lives become marked by their tragic experiences in the war and the memories and dreams afterward that have stained their life forever. The song addresses this sad contrast. Will soldiers ever be able to forget the memories and terrible pain acquired by these terrible circumstances. These words can be encouraging to those soldiers, “For look! I am creating new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be called to mind, Nor will they come up into the heart.” Those horrible experiences will be erased , never to torture the thinking again. In the mean time let us show compassion to those who have faced such bitterness.

LYRICS

PAIN AND ECSTASY

SEE THE PRETTY THINGS THERE ARE

WRAPPING AROUND EVERY STAR

WHIRLING THROUGH YOU HEART AND SOUL

MAKING YOUR LIFE SO VERY WHOLE

BUT THEN AGAIN THERE S THE STAIN

THAT LEAVES SO MANY DRAINED

I VE NEVER FELT THE PAIN

BUT I VE SEEN THE RAIN

CHORUS:       AND SOMEWHERE OUT THERE A LONELY SOLDIER CRIES

AND SOMEWHERE OUT THERE A LONELY SOLDIER CRIES

AND SOMEWHERE OUT THERE A LONELY SOLDIER CRIES

AND SOMEWHERE OUT THERE A LONELY SOLDIER CRIES

I DON T KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH ME

TOO MUCH PAIN AND ECSTASY

TURN A DIAL TO MAKE YOU SMILE

CLOSE YOUR EYES TO THE DARKENED CRIES

ITS SAID WAR IS PAIN AND WAR IS HELL

BUT THE PAIN CONTINUES TO DWELL

TAKE A LIFE AND BURN A SOUL

AND SEND IT DOWN THE ROAD

CHORUS:

I DON T KNOW WHATS WRONG WITH ME

TO MUCH PAIN AND ECSTASY