Saddest Song Ever

In '96 we laid babe to rest, well really she laid herself

We just bought the hole for her and a back hoe did its best

To drown out a silence that each one of us felt

For that old mare with the matted hair and a gait as smooth as silk

Now babe was just a vestige of childhood on lost legs

It's hard to look that in the face and have a thing to say

Now there's no need to close the gaps or keep the fences fixed

There's nothing much left for getting at since the year of '96

Oh there's a hole in the moon sometimes

And through it I see where I've been

And where I've been is where I am going again

Good jobs called us kids away when hard times got to town

And only major holidays and funerals brought us 'round

Mistletoe got the climbing tree and a falling branch took the barn

We salvaged old babe's saddle but we didn't know what for

Oh there's a hole in the moon sometimes

And through it I see where I've been

And where I've been is where I am going again

Sometimes you had to trick that old mare with one hand hiding the

Bridle behind your back and the

Other one offering up some sugar cubes

And that memory is just as sharp-edged

And sweet and one that I hope I never lose

But once you got her bridled she'd take you anywhere

On those fifty acres your imagination could create

Aren't all our best memories like that?

Elusive and sweet, yet waiting at the gate

Sunsets here are just as pretty as they ever were back then

But somehow seem more poignant in light of how things have been

The lawyer says it's all real clear, the house, the land, the will

I hear that Errol Johnson's got a colt he'd like to sell

Oh there's a hole in the moon sometimes

And through it I see where I've been

And where I have been is where I am going

It's where I am going again