Grand Old Feeling

They had written good luck in blue party cups In the holes of the chain link fence And we were waving goodbye with tears in our eyes At the trucks that disappeared around the bend My mother once said son, you're a good man Like she was trying to convince herself And my father once said son, that's a good plan If you woke up tomorrow and you were anybody else I've been looking for that grand, old feeling The singing sparrow in the marrow of my bones I've heard there's nothing to it They say that anyone can do it I've been searching everywhere that I go Dirty snow falling on the fields out there And on the Coffindaffer crosses by the road And I was just a kid with gel in my hair And mother gave me money for the tolls Y'know the whole world over's just a parting hand And goodbying eyes to send you on your way But there ain't no golden road that gets paved by man It's just a trail that's getting colder with every dying day I've been looking for that grand, old feeling The burning candle on the mantle of my soul On the highways and the hedges and the darkened midnight exits I've been searching everywhere that I go In the gloaming light of early night The laughter by the water wide Turning me and spurning me forever And past the mobile homes and rotting bones Above-ground pools and prayer stones Grieving me and leaving me never I've been searching for that grand, old feeling The singing sparrow in the marrow of my bones I've heard there's nothing to it They say that anyone can do it I've been searching everywhere that I go (Instrumental) I've been searching for that grand old, feeling The singing sparrow in the marrow of my bones I've heard there's nothing to it They say that anyone can do it I've been searching everywhere that I go I've been searching everywhere that I go I've been searching everywhere that I go