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