LYRICS
BACK DOWN TO GEORGIA
If you're going out to California
I've been everywhere a man can be
A black hot summer in a top hat and suit
Across the shores of Brittany
But I'm going back down to Georgia
Going back down to see
Georgia make a man feel mighty fine
With her lovin' and her sympathy
Going back down
A fool to ever leave
If you've ever got a flame for a good time
She'll burn you when she's out of her head
She'll set fire to your whole damned world
And watch it burn layin' naked in bed
But I'm going back down to Georgia
Going back down to see
Georgia make a man feel mighty fine
With her lovin' and her sympathy
Going back down
A fool to ever leave
Back when I was young and a fool girl
Momma told a prophecy
She said you can't settle down when I'm not around
And one day you'll be the death of me
But I'm going back down to Georgia
Going back down to see
Georgia make a man feel mighty fine
With her lovin' and her sympathy
Going back downA fool to ever leave
Going back down
A fool to ever leave
Going back down
A fool to ever leave
FINE SUNNY DAY
Polishing up my boots
Kickin' out them blues
Lately in this old town
There just ain't much work to do
Makin' change
Makin' waY
Makin' change
For that fine
Fine sunny day
Kickin' off my boots
Polishin' up them old blues
Lately in this old town
We just ain't seen much of you
That's ok
Makin' way
Makin' change
For that fine
Fine sunny day
HEARTWOOD
Like an old apple tree
In some forgotten homestead yard
Where love no longer blossoms
The only yield is broken hearts
If we can make it through the winter
And once again feel springtime’s warmth
We can trim away the old growth
Making light for a new start
With no way of knowin’
Where things are going these days
Count the stars, try and read the signs
Leave the rest up to grace
THough it feels like you pushing the stone
It’s just turning new leaves
Mustn’t fret for heartwood dead and gone
You are renewed
And this is spring
Apple tree
Let’s buy ourselves and old ford
And set out towards the north
Push her ‘til she breaks down
And we can’t afford the parts
We can make ends meet on odd jobs
Set the pace to summer’s score
And the rhythm of a thundercloud
Learning to embrace the storm
With no way of knowin’
Where things are going these days
Count the stars, try and read the signs
Leave the rest up to grace
Though it feels like you pushing the stone
It’s just turning new leaves
Mustn’t fret for heartwood dead and gone
You are renewed
And this is spring
Apple tree
You are renewed
This is spring
Apple treE
PETRICHOR & SAGE
Rain clouds on the skyline
Ruby Mountains to my back
the sea of green lay out before me
as the desert yields her wrath
with no burden on my conscience
I just keep running down the path
keeps me turning on the pages like the
only thing that matters in this life
is the petrichor and sage
When I first set eyes on an appaloosa
Pulled your letter from the satchel
Read it one last time
smiled and lit a cigarette
Trying to let the moment last
Still 7 hours from Lewiston
Start to feel my age
Running nowhere from nothing
Everything that's always been
My Dreams... blow like wind on the pass through the aspen stand to the running stream
All Signs... lead towards the open door the open range and the war against time
All things... Come and go, never last, like the desert spring
When those the old trails turned to asphalt
Wagon trains to the motor car
I traded flesh and bone
For the vinyl and chrome
A set of tired reins for THE STEERING WHEEL OR THE handlebars
Before my restless heart quits beating
It all end the same as it starts
Will I ever outlive running
And learn to love for everY LAST THING it takes
My Dreams... glow in the neon lights, over highway miles, in the city streets
All Signs... lead towards the open door the open road and the war against time
All things... Come and go, never last, like an L.A. fling
Every time I tried to hole up
They come to burn me out again
I wouldn't call it lonesome
But secrets held tight uttered only by the djinn
My soul.... Is a feather in the wind and the highway is my home
One day maybe soon here when the time comes
And I've received my wings of light
I'll wander here and there between distant stars
Still running through the soft and silent endless night
My Dreams... dwell somewhere on a comet tail sailing past Saturn's rings
All Signs... lead towards the open door the open sky and the war against time
All things... Come and go, never last, the stars dying gleam
The petrichor and sage
COME CLOSE TO ME
Your eyes
To see them welcome the night
And the sun set
To an early-June twilight
Come close to me
Your breath
Sweet as a summer breeze
When magnolia and dogwoods
Are blossoming
Please
Come close to me
Your kiss
I feel the trust in this
And the promise
Of a warm and gentle piece of mind
Please
Come close to me
I love you
Please
Come close to me
I love you
Come close to me