LYRICS

 

TWO SAPLINGS

 

Trouble in my head

Trouble in my heart

I’ll lay in my bed

Listen to that old steel guitar

You know these days I still get around

But even I hear the call

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

The trees are my friends

Only ones I’ve ever known

Will they hear me when I fall

Count the rings I have grown

And felled?

I’m leaving on that midnight train

See you by the station wall

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

See me when I fall

I’ll be better off having called

It a life well lived

I’ll get to see my Ma and Pa

But I’ll still be missing you

The two saplings 

Speak now to me

Be like the breeze

And there’s nowhere to fall

When the falling is all

It is all that you’ve got

Catch me

I think I’m falling under tow

Speak softly

Like the leaves on the winter snow

And you

You try to leave, me alone

And you

You try to leave, me alone…

Wayfaring Stranger

 

I.

Sometimes I feel like a ghost inside

Like I’ve lost my way

And I’m lying by your bedside in the morning light

Ooh, I feel happy again

And it’s been a long time

Since I’ve felt this way

I’ve been out and away

I’ve been going inside

Ooh, I’ve been a stranger in the night

And it’s been a long time

Since I’ve felt this way

And I’m lying on my back

With all this grief and pain

And I’m giving up the way

And I’m lying on my back

And I’m giving up the way

And I’m lying next to you

Sometimes that’s all I wanna do

Stay inside this summer afternoon

I’m waking up to you

I’m waking up to you

I’m waking up to you

I’m waking up to you

II.

Oh wayfaring stranger

No, weren’t you

No, weren’t you

No weren’t you the one who’s leaving?

Where you going these days?

How do you take your coffee in the morning?

Is it black, blacker than my soul, blacker

Than these thoughts running through my mind?

I wanna pick up the time that we left off

Times we could’ve had

The days run short and the nights are long and bad

How do you take your coffee in the morning?

Is it black, blacker than my soul, blacker

Than these thoughts running through my mind?

Where do you think you’re going

Dressed like that? You’re barebones with no clothes on

Your body fat would keep you warm if you had some

But you have none

And you’re better off for it

You belong to these mountains

And the forest with no end

Now I’m calling you,

Grabbing your hair in the wind

I invited you in

Laura