A Song for Our Grandfathers

Been a long time in a low place Surrounded by what I have made Need to get away Get away from what relates And what was done 'Cause it's all over now Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf And call my name In the lines there's not a trace I hear the ghost's whisper And his old eyes watching me But I feel safe Grandfather looking over me And he said: Don't make 'em wait Gotta go a long way Let's be brave Don't make them wait No, don't make them wait I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze Now it's fallow fields And clear-cut barren weeds They said that if I stared The abyss would stare back at me And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag It made me think about the way it all came to be Grandmama watching over me And she said: Don't make 'em wait Gotta go a long way Let's be brave Show them the way Ah, don't make them wait Don't make them wait, nah Don't make them wait I hear the ghost whisper And those old eyes are watching me But I feel safe I feel safe