Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Daniel Amos
Like most of the other songs on Motor Cycle, “My Frontier” is heavily inspired by Frederick Buechner’s book The Alphabet of Grace. The title probably comes from the following passage:
Alarming because I am forced to conclude also that the limitations of my face are my limitations, that in more ways...
[Verse 1]
Would-be believers
Beat plowshares to spears
Will miracles happen
On my frontier?
My frontier
[Verse 2]
Congenital lovers
Whose crimes are too dear
All these self betrayals
On my frontier
My frontier
[Verse 3]
'Neath my face is a graveyard
All my days buried here
The people that I've been
On my frontier
My frontier
[Bridge]
Hurry, sundown
Bring us low
Take us beyond our faces
Kick it apart
Kick the whole world apart
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Hurry, sundown
Bring us low
Take us beyond our faces
Kick it apart
Kick the whole world apart
[Verse 4]
And the night will absolve us
Wipe the slate clean
Maybe not for a lifetime
For just one day
Just one more day
[Verse 1]
And would-be believers
Beat plowshares to spears
Will miracles happen
On my frontier?
My frontier
My frontier
My frontier
My frontier
My frontier
My frontier
My frontier
My Frontier was written by Terry Scott Taylor.
My Frontier was produced by Terry Scott Taylor & Jerry Chamberlain & Daniel Amos.
In a 2019 post to his Patreon supporters, Taylor explained the song’s odd and psychedelic background music:
Contributing dramatically to the lyric’s dreamlike musical backdrop [ … ] is a somewhat chaotic and dissonant sound of a distant Church choir. This was in fact a sample I made at home using S...