Grandfather's farm, it's been here forever
Now that it's mine I want to remember
Where he came from and who he became
What he passed on to me with his name
Gonna dig it up, search it out again

Under the sidewalk, under the rooftops,
There is a life that longs to grow
Down where the roots go, stories we don't know
Are feeding the ground and all we sow
Making it grow

Working the land is working inside me
And I see the plan in living and dying
Gotta build it up, and tear it down again

Under the sidewalk, under the rooftops,
There is a life that longs to grow
Down where the roots go, stories we don't know
Are feeding the ground and all we sow
Making it grow
Making it grow

All the weeds that were sown in my field
They don't have to choke my ground
All the pain that was planted in my heart
I'm gonna plow it down
I'm gonna plow it down

Cause the mystery of my history 
is it don't have to lead me now
There's new land and a steady hand 
making me good, good ground
Making me good, good ground

Making me grow

Grow

Late here in the evening the sun is sinking low
All that I’ve been thinking is I wish that you were home, how I wish that I was home
I’ve been walking for days up and down these hills, surely lost my way
Through the forest in the rain I’ve known joy as well as pain, hear the sound of silence sing

Let it go, let it go, all these things that help you feel you’re in control
Let it go, let it go, before what you’re holding onto steals your soul

There’s a man from North Dakota with headphones in his ears
Mile and mile he wanders but the song he never hears, nature’s song he never hears

Let it go, let it go, all these things that help you feel you’re in control
Let it go, let it go, before what you’re holding onto 

All the news feeds and the headlines, the conflicts and the deadlines
What we keep and store away, I wish that I could say that
I’m exempt from what we suffer but even nature ain’t no buffer 
From the markets and the news, the progress that we choose

Let it go, let it go, all these things I need, these things we need
Let it go, let it go, before what you’re holding onto
Before what you’re holding onto
Before what you’re holding onto
What is holding on to me?

Let It Go

Seasons change and so do we don’t you know?
Could I tell you how long that I will be here? I don’t know
I don’t know just where the wind will take me but the breeze is picking up
And it feels like a wave before breaking and crashing down and coming in

Oh don’t let it slip away, seize the day

So what have we to fear of change? I don’t know
It’s the coming and the leaving, the hurting and the healing that helps us grow
I don’t know just where the wind will take me but the breeze is picking up
And it feels like a fast roller coaster, just hang on and let it go

Oh don’t let it slip away, seize the day
 
I will not slow down I will not grow old until my story’s told
I won’t hold back now or wait my life away

Oh, I won’t let it slip away, seasons change and so do we

Seasons Change

Springtime comes today, a new life found in a land far away
Friends and family are here to celebrate, unpack your lives as we pack it all away

I’ll pack it in boxes, they’ll pack them in boxes, we pack them in boxes and we leave
All our knickknacks and paintings, those lamp shades and green things
All labeled in their boxes and they leave

We take all our lives, we’ll take all our lives, try and tie it down and leave it all behind
I’ll take your plates to remember your face when you’re not here

I’ll pack them in boxes, we’ll pack them in boxes, all packed up in boxes and we’ll leave
All my books and your diplomas, the coffee cups in storage
Oh and all the hats and shoes and shoes and shoes we never wear
And the Christmas lights and reindeer, and the keepsakes from this past year
And all those empty boxes we save for moving day
All packed up in boxes, we pack all those boxes, I’ll pack all those boxes and I’ll leave

What will they say about us when we’re gone?
What will they do with the things I leave behind?

Oh we’ll pack them in boxes, they’ll pack them in boxes, they’ll pack up those boxes and they’ll leave.
All our knickknacks and paintings, those lamp shades and green things
All labeled in their boxes and they leave

What will they say about us when we’re gone?

Boxes

Searching skies with tired eyes for bottles on the sea
Writes her soul on a page and sends it off to me
Her cheeks they glisten with the tears of a thousand failed tries
I reach into her dreams from mine to wipe them from her eyes

Though I’m far away it’ll be okay

Eyes are closed, minds alive with memories of we
Dreams are cruel, they beckon me with a face I long to see
Our hope it burns like fireflies, it flickers in the night
The dreams we share, searching the air to find our lover’s light

Though I’m far away it’ll be okay

Our hope it burns like fireflies, it flickers in the night
The dreams we share, searching the air to find our lover’s light

Fireflies

Just two pages in my hand of this chapter I’m living and I can’t see where this story goes
You say let’s sell it all and drive ‘til we can’t drive no more, toward the sun ‘til it rises on our backs
Until our questions are just questions once more and our restlessness sets like the sun

We’ll take Interstate 90 out to Ritzville and head Southwest to Kennewick and 84
The river runs downhill from there to Portland where we’ll find what we’re looking for
Where our questions are just questions once more and our restlessness sets like the sun

The Subaru is getting packed, the sleeping bags are in the back and you say we’ll find a place to stay
On the corner above a coffeeshop, and I’ll play tunes while you just watch or write a book or put words on a page
Until our questions are just questions once more and our restlessness sets like the sun

We’ll take Interstate 90 out to Ritzville and head Southwest to Kennewick and 84
The river runs downhill from there to Portland where we’ll find what we’re looking for
Yeah we’ll find what we’re looking for

Oregon in summertime, the sunshine’s shine is shining bright and we sit with our two best friends
We tell them all our stories and they say there’s a master plan, that love with us is all we really need
And I smile and take your hand in mine and say to you that all this time our quest was about the one who loves
And all our longings and our dreams, the people loved and places seen is oil in a painting of our God
And our questions are just questions once more, our restlessness sets like the sun

Just two pages in my hand of this chapter we’re living and I can’t see where our story goes

Portland

New beginnings come from an end, new horizons come through a bend in the road and
We could feel the same way now as we did then
Or we could heal inside, just take my hand as the wind blows

The sweet sweet breeze blows the brown hair across your face
Sweet sweet dreams girl, I’ll be here when you wake up

Desperation comes with hard times, and inspiration arrives line by line
We could feel the fear, run and hide
But it all disappears inside your angel eyes

All the clouds and the wind and the rain, all the hardship and loss and the pain
Seems easier when you’re free
It seems easier when you’re with me

Sweet Breeze

My days they pass like wind in a field blowing across the grass
Like rain upon the windshield, streaking as I pass
You call my name, was that you or me I’m hearing things again
Howl at me just like the rushing wind

The days aren’t getting longer, clouds are rolling in
We were made to change and move and come and go again
Like the wind, Like the wind

This is my fate, like a wagon wheel rolling down the lane
Does the river ever tire? I think it’s getting higher

The days aren’t getting longer, clouds are rolling in
We were made to change and move and come and go again
Like the wind, Like the wind

Cause this is all we have here, this little slice of time
It’ll make it better if you’re mine

The days aren’t getting longer, clouds are rolling in
Seasons change and we were made to come and go again
Like the wind, Like the wind

Wind

I was adopted by a family of orphans
took custody of my brothers and the girls
We went missing and were never really found
That’s how I came to be here now

Found a family working in the mines
We were black as coal and I nearly lost my life
One day something told me better
That’s how I made it out alive

Some would say it’s destiny but I can’t really say 
that I believe in those sorts of things
The future is too fickle though, to be so predictable 
like the waves that crash in with the tide
as it gently drains our sands dry
Someone must’ve wanted me alive
 
Then the war came, I asked to join the Navy
They let me in, I lied about my age
Ship went down, my life flashed before my eyes
Someone must have wanted me alive

As it gently drains our sands dry
Dry

Raised a family, owned some land, 
built a house with my two hands
But I never was at home, worked my fingers to the bone
Tell my grand kids all the time, 
I saw my life flash before my eyes
Someone must’ve wanted me alive

They say it can’t be chance to me that I’m alive 
and you are here with me, I must agree
The future gets the best of me, 
my past looks like destiny every time I see the sunrise

Someone must have wanted me
Alive
Someone must have wanted me

BarrettMyers

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