Odetta

You were always tryna fill the void of my brother

Habits, old

Tryna find that something new

Never steer in the arms of a lover

Seeking darkness wherever lightning shine through

Along came the mourning of another

Blind sided by your sweet surprise

Odetta, don't you know

That you saved this young man's soul?

And he can watch you getting wise

And you can watch him growing old

You're always searching for destruction

Now you bare the scars of the broken

Which you chose

Takes a brave and a stronger kind of woman

To follow where such a broken man could go

Along came the mourning of another

Blind sided by your sweet surprise

Odetta, don't you know

That you saved this young man's soul?

And he can watch you getting wise

And you can watch him growing old

You got to hold him close

Odetta, don't you never let him go

Might be a long wild road

Although we may need you there

We need you now more than ever

Odetta, don't you know

That you saved this young man's soul?

And he can watch you getting wise

And you go watch him growing old

Odetta