Gnarled Bones Lyrics and the Poems that Inspired the Lyrics! Plus get a Free Bonus Chapter of “histories of the souls” which can be found on Ward Kelley’s Authors page. Ward Kelley is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose publication credits include such journals as: Plainsongs, Karamu, Another Chicago Magazine, Strange Horizons, Spillway, GSU Review, Rattle, The Chaffin Journal, Midstream, Zuzu’s Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Pif, Whetstone, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, Potpourri and Skylark. The recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001, Kelley is also the author of “histories of souls,” a poetry collection, and he has an epic poem, “comedy incarnate” on CD and CD ROM.Gnarled Bones is the brain child of Author Ward Kelley and Musician Don Whitaker. Using poetry from the poetry book “histories of the souls” concerning magical realism, reincarnation, and metaphysics. Ward and Don collaborated to create the unique lyrics and sound that is the Gnarled Bones Album. Listen and keep up with all Ward Kelley’s Artist free at WardKelleyArtists.com Free Bonus Chapter of histories of soulsPoetry concerning: Magical realism is literature that looks at fables, myths, and allegory in the rational world.Reincarnation: the philosophical and/or religious concept that the soul or spirit, after death, can begin a new life in a new body to learn, experience and gain knowledge.Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned nature of being and the world that surrounds it.Lyrics and PoetryGnarled Bones is the title song of the book and album, the song’s lyrics drawing from several poemsSynopsis: Gnarled Bones is a song about a man searching for his soul mate. He carries a sadness from this – which he calls ‘gnarled bones’ – with him throughout his life, sometimes catching echoes of her from a past life with his true love. Follow this man’s journey as he searches . . . and concludes he’s a better man for the journey.Death Does Not Come Humble offers both lyrics and authors notes. Synopsis: The singer has an epiphany in this song – where he feared death all his life, he comes to see it as an enhancing event at the end, comparable to a lion who comes to whisk him to a better state of being. He realizes he should mount the back of this graceful, forgiving beast, and learns he himself is the ‘greatest’ entity in his own life, but conversely also the ‘least’ entity in the panorama of the universe.Find very informative Authors’s note thought-out the book.Authors Notes for Death Does Not Come HumbleGeorge Inness (1825-1894), American landscape painter, was largely responsible for introducing the French Barbizon style in the United States. The victim of epilepsy, he was also given to eccentric behavior and possessed a mystical personality. His son reported his father died viewing a particularly exquisite sunset; though weakened from his final illness, Inness threw his hands in the air while exclaiming, “My God! Ah, how beautiful!” then fell to the ground, dead.This book also offers! “The Source of the Poem” - An Interview with Elisha Porat by Ward Kelley.Clip from Before God:Before God - Before God, there grew a yearning for consequence, an ache in the void already swirling with the souls of angels, wispy skeletons waiting to be thought into substance, traces, whispered kisses, on carousels of desire, pining for dreams of intercourse.Before the divine, we wished for a lurch, a celestialslouch towards abstracts of beings clever enough to invent…. Read on And Much More…Find all the lyrics, stories and poetry behind the Gnarled Bones Album. Get Authors News at WardKelley.orgListen and keep up with all Ward Kelley’s Artist free at WardKelleyArtists.com