From the recording Blue Fields
Lyrics
Well he’s got 8 kids, each one as crazy as the next. An honest man, he always read his sacred text. It was always some body other than his own. He never changed, and his love was always shown.
I’ve gathered some things and I’ll go home now. Don’t tell me where to go. I think I’ll figure it out.
Rivers and treetops, they all speak of memory. Blue fields and orange seats, from there you’ll be watching me.
Twenty years is not what I had planned. Though I’m not real sure but I think you’ll understand that you were always someone larger than your own life. Nothing ever changed and only God can have the rights to what I knew that could always make me smile. To teach us things that’ll last me quite a while. I will always think about the ways you helped me show the world that it’s my day
I’ve gathered some things, and I’ll lay them here. If you are right, they last another 80 years.
Rivers and treetops, they all speak of memory. Blue fields and orange seats, from there you’ll be watching me. Yes, nothing less than a symphony. Rest, I’ll contest, and I’ll live with you right next to me.
It’s my turn now to make my way. A better world, I kind of sound the same as what you did and what you made. I’m taking that from you and I know what you would say.
Nothing less, a symphony. Nothing less, a masterpiece. Nothing less, a symphony. Nothing less, a masterpiece.
Tell me that it can’t be so, and tell me that it’s not time to go, but I know. As I say next to a hospital bed, nothing prepared me for what was said: “It’s time to take him home.”
Nothing less. Nothing less. Nothing less, a symphony. Nothing less, a masterpiece.
Rivers and treetops, they all speak of memory. Blue fields and orange seats, from there you’ll be watching me.Yes, nothing less than a symphony. Rest, I’ll contest, and I’ll live with you right next to me.
Now I’ll have some kids, and I’ll tell them of the best. To do what’s right and to live up to the test. It will always be what you taught to me, from giving life to working hard to be everything that I know that I could make. Put myself aside and all my selfish ways. You can always tell me when I’m wrong. I’ll see you soon. It’s really not that long.