Beautiful Boy / Downstream

(Beautiful boy)

Beautiful boy

You’re growing sick and shedding joy

But that’s your choosing

Beautiful boy

Your youth is draining from your eyes

Your grip must loosen

When will you realize

Life won’t wait for me as you do

Twenty winters now

Only for I was around

Don’t you remember?

The willow and white pine

Long before I called you mine

You held yourself so kind

I left you binded by

The promise of the young

Weightless at the time

How it’s come to grow

Heavy on your soul

Breath, grow my love

Leave before it kills you

(Downstream)

I’ve been so lost

I’ve been afraid

God knows I’ve tried

To push you downstream

Move like the water runs with the creek

It’s been so long now

It’s been so long

Since I’ve been me

Since I’ve been me

Since I’ve been me

Since I’ve been

Since I’ve been me

Since I’ve been me

Since I’ve been