Nothin' - Townes Van Zandt

pretty much just a shitty love song

i was asleep now i'm woken by sun creeping in
warming the world spreading light on what could have been
i'm embarrassed to smile and a little bit scared to admit
oh this is love this is

now i start to worry that i've wasted the time before this
and if i don't look now i might never find light to bask in
my head in my hands and my heart beating quick
oh this is love this is

i was asleep now i just want to get back to it
but after all that i've chased now it seems i can't quit
like the dreams that we follow but never quite catch
(like the weight of a nightmare that's hard to forget)
oh this is love this is

Shitty Love Song

take this old man's wishes
and bury them with him
in the dirt

feel the old age gripping
the life he was given
now he's set to return

just take him
lay him right down
and bury him with the life he found

hear the young man spitting
cursing and quipping 
letting go

of the words his father had written
their messages hidden
from him he'd suppose

well why can't you take him
right now
and bury him with his old man somehow 

now he's grown and his mind with him
he's minding his own kin
he's settled down

reciting the words that dad had left him
the kind that kids won't believe in 
but they'll soon come around

so when it's been
enough
let him lay himself down knowing his work is done

On Fathers and Sons

facing down your dying days to dust to dust we're all the same so you sing with the stoic heart of a poet to dust to dust that old refrain you find some comfort here in these words then disappear one by one until nothing remains

Dustbuster

LIVE with the West Vancouver Youth Band at the "Around The World in 80 Minutes" concert on February 26th 2013

Lyrics:
This land I know raised me well
Will the stories hold only time may tell

Hold my hand and take me home the young may say
We won’t get anywhere if we run away
On the coast we dream of inland lives 
When inland we are wishing with the rising tide
We try to find the words to say…

Chorus:
This land I know raised me well
Will the stories hold only time may tell
So when I’m old when I’ve been round
This land I know can lay me down

In the cold old people grin they know they belong
Know a mountains not a molehill unless you make it one
Know they have this place to themselves
They don’t pack their bags they stock the shelves
Remembering how they used to say...

CHORUS

Before I break easy, before I break down
I will be coming back home
Because home’s where the highways 
Stretch out into fields of life 
Shadowed by giants on the way
Bit contrived to be anything but at a loss for words
Until we’ve finally learned to say

CHORUS


eric hadley

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