Where am I today? I wish that I knew 'Cause lookin' around there's no sign of you I don't remember one jump or one leap Just quiet steps away from your lead
I'm holding my heart out but clutching it too Feeling this short of a love that we once knew I'm calling this a home when it's not even close Playing the role with nerves left exposed
Standing on a darkened stage Stumbling through the lines Others have excuses I have my reasons why
We get distracted by the dreams of our own But nobody's happy while feeling alone And knowing how hard it hurts when we fall We lean another ladder against the wrong wall
And climb high to the highest rung To shake fists at the sky Others have excuses I have my reasons why With so much deception it's hard not to wander away It's hard not to wander away, it's hard not to wander away
You gotta leave me now You gotta go alone You gotta chase a dream One that's all your own Before it slips away
When you're flying high Take my heart along I'll be the harmony To every lonely song That you learn to play
When you're soaring through the air I'll be your solid ground Take every chance you dare I'll still be there When you come back down When you come back down
I keep looking up Awaiting your return My greatest fear will be That you will crash and burn And I won't feel your fire
I'll be the other hand That always holds a line Connecting in between Your sweet heart and mine I'm strung out on that wire
I'll be on the other end To hear you when you call Angel you were born to fly And if you get too high I'll catch you when you fall Catch you when you fall
Your memory's the sunshine Every new day brings I know the sky is calling Angel let me help you with your wings
When you're soaring through the air I'll be your solid ground Take every chance you dare I'll still be there When you come back down
Take every chance you dare I'll still be there When you come back down When you come back down
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Oh, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green-crested lapwing, thy screaming forebear, Oh, I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair
Oh, How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear winding rills, There daily I wander as noon rises high My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye.
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; There oft as mild Ev'ning sweeps over the lea The sweet scented birch shades my Mary and me.
Oh, Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by her cot where my Mary resides, How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As gathering sweet flow'rets she stems thy clear wave.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays, My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, So flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
the boy only wanting to give mother something and all of her roses had bloomed looking at him as he came rushing in with them knowing her roses were doomed all she could see were some thorns buried deep and tears that he cried as she tended his wounds
and she knew it was love it was one she could understand he was showing his love and that's how he hurt his hands
he still remembers that night as a child on his mother's knee she held him close and she opened her Bible and quietly started to read then seeing a picture of Jesus he cried out, "Mama He's got some scars just like me!"
and he knew it was love it was one he could understand He was showing his love and that's how He hurt His hands
now the boy's grown and moved out on his own when Uncle Sam comes along a foreign affair but our young men were there and luck had his number drawn it wasn't that long till our hero was gone he gave to a friend what he'd learned from the cross
Well they knew it was love it was one they could understand he was showing his love and that's how he hurt his hands It was one they could understand he was showing his love and that's how he hurt his hands
The fox went out on a chilly night He prayed for the moon to give him light for he'd many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o He'd many a mile to go that night before he reached the town-o
He ran till he came to the farmers pen the ducks and the geese were kept therein He said a couple of you are gonna grease my chin, before I leave this town-o, town-o, town-o a couple of you are going to grease my chin before I leave this town-o
He grabbed the great goose by the neck threw a duck across his back and he didn't mind the quack, quack and the legs all danglin' down-o down-o down-o he didn't mind the quack quack and the legs all danglin' down-o
Well the old grey women jumped out of bed Out of the window she popped her head cried john john the great goose is gone and the fox is on the town-o town-o town-0 john john the great goose is gone and the fox is on the town-o
He ran till he came to his nice warm den and there were the little ones eight, nine, ten sayin' daddy daddy better go back again it must be a mighty fine town-o town-o town-o daddy daddy go back again it must be a mighty fine town-o
The fox and his wife, without any strife cut up the goose with a fork and a knife they never had such a supper in their life and the little ones chewed on the bones-o bones-o bones-o they never had such a supper in their life and the little ones chewed on the bones.
