Editor's Note: I fell in love with this song the first time I heard it. The lyrics are unmistakably Mark Heard. The catch is I heard the song for the first time, on a Mark Heard tribute album. The album was primarily put together by the founding members of the band, The Choir. Below the lyrics you'll their version of the song on Spotify. "Tip of My Tongue" | Satellite Sky ~Mark Heard There's an oasis in the heat of the day There's a fire in the chill of night A turnabout in circumstance makes each a hell in its own right I've been boxed-in in the lowlands, in the canyons that think I've been pushed to the brink of the precipice and dared not to blink I've been confounded in the whirlwind of what-ifs and dreams I've been burned by the turning of the wind back upon my own flames Knock the scales from my eyes Knock the words from my lungs I want to cry out It's on the tip of my tongue I've see...
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