Travis Sean Miller moved to NYC from Georgia about ten years ago and now writes songs and stuff and plays with his band, The Travis Sean Miller Band. Travis is very excited to post on High Contrast Review, and hopes that people will support his music and keep an eye out for his forthcoming album.

AGE OF GRACE

If you got a big-eyed stare
Like a beat up kid
Take this advice from me
And do just what I did
Learn to use your words
For what you think you know
Cuz by god, life and time
Will make you let the rest of it go

Into the crooked sky
And this broken earth
And all of the problems
And the blessings
I’ve been dealing with since birth
My Lord if I
Could only see your face
I might just make it through
The age of grace

Better learn to fight like hell
You better learn to scrap
Cuz there ain’t a damn thing in this world
Just gonna fall into your lap
Without a hidden price
In real fine print
That’ll make you keep your hammer ringin’
Though you might not make a dent

It’s just a crowded train
Against these squeaky tracks
Well I wish to God I’d stayed in bed
But now there ain’t no goin’ back
My Lord if time
Were a harder thing to waste
I just might make it through
This age of grace

Well my eyes they lie
And my hand perfect my craft
And what’s inside
And what comes out
Keep butting heads
While my heart laughs
But I ain’t let down
Oh no, I’ve still got my joy
For as long as I can still glimpse beauty
That’s enough
For this old boy

It’s just an other line
Drawn in the sand
And my city is under siege
By random fools
That want to take my promised land
And Lord I would die
To hold this place
But I gotta pick my battles wisely
In this age of grace
Oh I must choose my battles wisely
Living in the age of grace