Body Of Work
single
Body Of Work
“Body of Work” earns its ambition: opening with clean arpeggiated guitar before the full band arrives and lifts the whole thing into something stadium-ready, it’s the kind of build that actually pays off. The hook is direct without being simple, and “each flaw a verse, each scar a hymn” is the sort of line that lands harder the second time you hear it. At 92 BPM in D major, the tempo sits right in that Petty-esque sweet spot where the song can breathe and surge without losing momentum, and the layered harmonies that pile into the final chorus give the closing declaration, “I’d do it all again,” the weight it needs to close the argument. A highlight.
Lyrics
I gave myself to the hammer and nail Bent to the burden, too tired to fail Built without blueprints, became what I paid My self defined by what I made
(Body of work) Look at what I’ve done (Body of work) Look at who I’ve become (Body of work) Hear the songs I’ve sung (Body of work) Will it be enough in the end
They tell me the temple is body But mine holds echoes inside me Each flaw a verse, each scar a hymn This flesh was shaped by what’s been
(Body of work) Look at what I’ve done (Body of work) Look at who I’ve become (Body of work) Hear the songs I’ve sung (Body of work) Let the silence answer, my friend
No one sees the hours I spent The weight I carry, the truths I bent The songs I sing you never hear Still I work, year after year
I wasn’t saved by standing still I was shaped by breaking will Not perfect, not clean-but real And that’s the grace which now I feel
(Body of work) Look at what I’ve done (Body of work) Look at who I’ve become (Body of work) Hear the songs I’ve sung (Body of work) I’d do it all again
Body of work… body of work… Still becoming. Still begun
Credits
Songwriter: Michael Anthony Rose