Gnarled Bones Music Video

Gnarled Bones is a music video about man searching for his soul mate. He carries a sadness -- 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 this painful journey.


Gnarled Bones
(Whitaker/Kelley 2015)


I’ve no memory of the greatest loving
of my existence, only an odd feeling
of great loss, which I carry like gnarled bones.

All these bones I heft through this strange life, dragging
myself through the long process, yearning, trying
my damnedest to create a pure peace, my tones.

Know you’re out there somewhere, I see,
find you anywhere, I believe,
I’ll never stop searching, I’ll be
a better man for the journey,
just a good man for the journey.

Some call me crazy, living with gnarled bones,
bones in my music, bones in the very eyes
of my exuberance; why do they appear

when my will would grind them down like pumice stones?
Then her spirit hints, a déjà vu, belies
something I cannot grasp; she’s just a veneer.

Know you’re out there somewhere, I see,
find you anywhere, I believe,
I’ll never stop searching, I’ll be
a better man for the journey,
just a good man for the journey.


Glimpse her in the corner of a fresh girl’s eye,
in the tilt of a waitress’ slender hand,
Once I dreamt her say, “I fear you’ll never trust

in death, but then can you trust one such as I?”
She’s in the brown river of Time, I’m the sand;
I’ve always known she’s the steel and I’m the rust.

Know you’re out there somewhere, I see,
find you anywhere, I believe,
I’ll never stop searching, I’ll be
a better man for the journey,
just a good man for the journey.

Artist’s note:
Will and Ariel Durant (1885-1981 and 1898-1981) wrote in “The Story of Civilization,” that “When a Hindu is asked why we have no memory of our past incarnations, he answers that likewise we have no memory of our infancy; and as we presume our infancy to explain our maturity, so he presumes past existences to explain our place and fate in our present life.”


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Credits:

Music – Don Whitaker http://gnarledbones.com

Lyrics – Ward Kelley http://wardkelley.org

Guitars – Don Whitaker

Energy – Resa Robertson

Video Production by – Kimberly Hargis http://wpindiana.com

Special Locations Thanks to
Thirty Six Saloon http://ThirtySixSaloon.com

Town of Mansfield Indiana
Mansfield Roller Mill Dam http://MansfieldVillage.com

Parke County
Conley's Ford Covered Bridge located between Mansfield and Bridgeton. http://CoveredBridges.com