It's so easy to cash in these chips on my shoulders So easy to loose this old tongue like a tiger It's easy to let all this bitterness smolder Just to
God of my fathers Huddled in the harbor Every man an ocean from his home Their captors could not keep them When they heard the drums of freedom The dream
Somewhere along the Scottish coast And emerald island lies And I will steer my sailing boat Unto the Isle of Skye The weather's always changing From
We chose the spot, we dug the hole We laid the maples in the ground to have and hold As Autumn falls to Winters sleep We pray that somehow in the Spring
I was nineteen, you were twenty-one The year we got engaged Everyone said we were much too young But we did it anyway We bought our rings for forty each
I am weary with the pain of Jacob's wrestling In the darkness with the Fear, in the darkness with the Fear But he met the morning wounded with a blessing
Come climb the hill with me Come and be still with me Come watch the sun sink away If you will with me Come watch the garden grow Down by the gravel
You could no more kill the darkness Than you could raise the sun And the sky was cold and black Like the barrel of a gun And I remember the tremble In
I can see the storm descending on the hill tonight Tall trees are bending to your will tonight Let the mighty bow down At the thundering sound of your
I grew up in a little town A southern mix of lost and found Where most folks seem to stick around But I could hear the highway song I'd sit out on the
If you'll step inside this great glass elevator It'll take us up above the city lights To where the planet curves away to the equator I want to show you
Father Abraham Do you remember when You were called to a land And didn?t know the way ?Cause we are wandering In a foreign land We are children of the
I suppose you could lay me down to die in Illinois Bury me beneath the rows of corn Or in-between the maple trees I climbed on as a boy Where in the Land
There is no road to bear me from my sorrow No healing that is deeper than this hurt My heart is gone away across the water To the bright, undying shores
Open the door and run outside Your little boy heart alive Into the morning light Into the deep and wide Dinosaur bones in the flowerbed Rockets in the
We touched down on the sound At the top of the world In the land of the midnight sun Where the frozen river melts away And breaks into a run Into the
I met the queen of Iowa She was dying on a couch in the suburbs And with all of the things she was dying of She was more alive than the others She was
My uncle?s in the county jail His time is on his hands He knows he chose a barren cell Over a fair and fertile land He took another hit He hit another
