Oooooooo

Oooooooo

Oooooooo

Dust in our eyes

Our own boots kicked up

Heartsick we nurse along the way we picked up

You may not see it when it's stickin' to your skin

But we're better off for all that we let in

We've lost friends and loved ones much too young

With so much promise and work left undone

When all that guards is a single centered line

And the brutal crossing over when it's time

CHORUS:

Well I don't know where it all begins

And I don't know where it all ends

We're better off for all that we let in

One day those toughies will be withered up and bent

The father, son, the holy warriors, and the president

The glory days of put-up dukes for all the world to see

Beaten into submission in the name of the free

We're in an evolution I have heard it said

Everyone's so busy now but do we move ahead?

Planets hurling and atoms splitting

And a sweater for your love you sit there knitting

CHORUS

See those crosses on the side of the road

Tied with ribbons in the median

They make me grateful I can go this mile

Lay me down at night and wake me up again

Kat writes a poem and she sticks it on my truck

We don't believe in war and we don't believe in luck

Birds were callin' to her

What were they saying?

As the gate blew open and the tops of the trees were swaying

I pass the cemetary walk my dog down there

I read the names in stone and I say a silent prayer

When I get home you're cooking supper on the stove

And the greatest gift of life is to know love

CHORUS