Pearcearrow
Running
Babe I got your letter late this morning
But what you said just didn't make any sense
so I'm packing up my bags, I'm coming for you
So don't you worry that you'll be alone
I'm coming home
I started making miles outside Alabama
Thought I'd never make it past Mobile
Driving by yourself sure makes things lonely
All you seem to be is skin and bones
But I'm coming home
Baby, what's your answer? Do you know where I am?
For love is only images of your face in my mind
Can we mend our severed lines?
Dallas passed me by without a warning
and Amarillo's just 10 miles away
Tomorrow night will end this maddened journey
when I meet you will we run away from yesterday
Baby, what's your answer? Will you take me as I am?
Yes you are who I'm thinking of when I think of moving on.
You're Fine
Well I noticed darling you don't smile anymore
Got the world in your eyes
Save it all for tomorrow, well, tomorrow's today
And it's been so long since I've held you
Cast these eyes past your way
Said I'd see you tomorrow, but you're here today
Love's got me feeling, babe, that it's been way too long
And I've been waiting dear for this place in time
to say that I think you're fine
We can leave the children at my brother's
Take some time for ourselves
Grab a hold of that sunshine that's been gone so long
And we'll bet away for the weekend
Make some love down the road
Take our minds off tomorrow and enjoy today
Love's got me feeling babe that this is where I belong
I've been awaiting dear for this place in time
to say that I think you're fine
Set My Spirit Free
Too many years have passed me by that could have turned out better
Wasted in my saddened haste to find a way to make it all work out
Now that I have found out how to live with me
I need someone like you to set my spirit free; set me free
Not many understand the way I need you or the way you mold my being
For no one ever held me like you do in respect to how I'm feeling
When I'm feeling low I turn my mind to you
And through your love you help me do what I must do; I need you
I'm not trying to hold your life, though some may think I do
You must be what you want to be, but all I want from you is you, is you.
Won't You Love Me
As I lay beneath a willow, thinking oh, about the sky
Someone came upon me, smiled; said won't you love me
So we lay beneath that willow sowing all our ancient oats
Hoping for a flower to grow, but nothing grew
Did she love me, no she didn't, still she stayed with me the years
Until one day she said, I'm tired, I have to go
So I cross a million oceans and I climbed the highest hill
Searching for something I could not find, but I kept looking
Then on the day that I turned 40 I looked back on the lonely years
Wondering what it was I was searching for; it was her
As I lay beneath a willow, thinking oh, about the sky
Someone came upon me, smiled, said won't you love me
Ready to Go
I looked up at the ceiling; I looked right at the door
I packed up my belonging and I laid them on the floor
Yeah, I'm ready to go; yeah I'm ready to go
I'm going to lay out on the highway, I'm going to roll with the hills
I'm going to fly, fly, fly, fly out of here
They say I've got to go to college, I've got to be someone
I've got to make a lot of money, find a place in the sun
Yeah, I'm ready to go; yeah I'm ready to go
I'm going to lay out on the highway, I'm going to roll with the hills
I'm going to fly, fly, fly, fly out of here
Someday I'll find the answers and I'll write them on the walls
But by then you'll think I'm crazy, so it won't matter at all
And I'm ready to go, yeah, I'm ready to go
And you can sing about your money, you can drown in your pools
I'm going to fly, fly, fly, fly my own way
Capsule
I grabbed my bag, left the house and walked away
I couldn't face you, besides there wasn't much to say
You get too old and you find you just can't wait
to go your own way and plot the past you like to date
And the road that I travel is a dark and dusty trail
That's based on my imagination
And should I take a good look as I'm going down that trail
Will I know my destination?
She was vague yet too real to understand
I didn't know her well and there was no fire to fan
She was older and she'd seen a great deal more
I thought I'd found a world in which I could explore
But the world is a capsule holding things that never change
Vacuum memories held in silence
And if you shine the light of time they will dance and show themselves
Then change away with your compliance
You say you know me and it's true you probably do
You say you love me when you know I don't love you
And I would stay if I knew things wouldn't change
But that never happens and there is no one to blame
And the road that I travel is a dark and dusty trail
That based on my imagination
And if the world is growing colder am I growing colder too?
Enough to sign my resignation?
Yes, the road that I travel is a dark and dusty trail
That based on my imagination
And should I take a good look as I'm going down that trail
Will I know my destination?
Little Girl
Are you chasing rainbows, yeah, and running to the islands, sweet
Finding all your fortunes underneath the trees?
Downy clouds roll by when you watch the sky
Telephones don't hear you, well; glasses don't obscure you, yeah
And all the children call you as you are
Tears just wipe away with a flutter of your hand
Did you realize the things you had inside
Were modestly reveled in your smile
I'd give my soul to hold you; just so I could know you
before the last autumn fades away; don't slip away
Seems like night without you; some nights I dream about you, sad
How could we doubt you go away
Till we spread your wings across the mountainside
And are you chasing rainbows, yeah; running to the islands, yeah
Finding all your fortunes underneath the trees
Downy clouds roll by when you watch the sky
Fading
Isn't this something, here I am knowing that nothing has changed
Like the morning; taken for granted, taken in stride, so who worries 'bout the permanent?
Take things easy when you know someone's around;let the evening pass away without a sound
As I fading; fading away like the breeze; fading into your memories
Think of me always? Or maybe at times when it's just you alone
Keeping busy, that's easy to understand, after all I'm so far away
Light the candles, let them burn when I am gone; hols some silence, find the place where I belong
As I'm fading; fading away like the breeze; fading into your memories
In my dreams; you are always in my eyes; warm as summer; real as the rain falling down
In the afternoon; wet lips and velvet smiles keep me fading
Have my dreams; am I always in your eyes?
Reassuring like father's hands taking fears many years away
A hug for security keeps me fading
My life's such insanity, look at me waiting like a fool for tomorrow and whatever's waiting there
So who cares for the permanent?
Cross illusions, give me something I can hold; play the music that I sang and that I wrote
while I'm fading, fading away like the breeze; fading into your memories.