A Song For Our Grandfathers
Been a long time in a low place
Surrounded by what I have made
Need to get away
Get away from what relates
And what was done
'Cause it's all over now
Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf
And call my name
In the lines there's not a trace
I hear the ghost's whisper
And his old eyes watching me
But I feel safe
Grandfather looking over me
And he said: Don't make 'em wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
No, don't make them wait
I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee
Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me
These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze
Now it's fallow fields
And clear-cut barren weeds
They said that if I stared
The abyss would stare back at me
And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me
Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag
It made me think about the way it all came to be
Grandmama watching over me
And she said: Don't make 'em wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Show them the way
Ah, don't make them wait
Don't make them wait, nah
Don't make them wait
I hear the ghost whisper
And those old eyes are watching me
But I feel safe
I feel safe
Surrounded by what I have made
Need to get away
Get away from what relates
And what was done
'Cause it's all over now
Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf
And call my name
In the lines there's not a trace
I hear the ghost's whisper
And his old eyes watching me
But I feel safe
Grandfather looking over me
And he said: Don't make 'em wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Don't make them wait
No, don't make them wait
I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee
Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me
These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze
Now it's fallow fields
And clear-cut barren weeds
They said that if I stared
The abyss would stare back at me
And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me
Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag
It made me think about the way it all came to be
Grandmama watching over me
And she said: Don't make 'em wait
Gotta go a long way
Let's be brave
Show them the way
Ah, don't make them wait
Don't make them wait, nah
Don't make them wait
I hear the ghost whisper
And those old eyes are watching me
But I feel safe
I feel safe
Credits
Writer(s): Samuel Thompson Herring, John Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion
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