Gossip In The Grain lyrics

Laid our blessings on the ground,
The softening of sound
Draws us closed again
Stay, stay and watch the coals
'Till they cease to glow
Like empty promises

Why, Why did you go, why did you go away?
Why, Why did you go, why did you go away baby?

There's nothing I can say
Nothing I can do
To bring you back again
This of life I know is true
It's all a falling through
And so I reach for you

Such the lazy Jackstraw, oh
Always late for tea
Never bothers to ring lately

Says the silly Sparrow,
'There's gossip in the grain,
Have you heard the...Oh you don't say.'

'Someday, someday,
A snow shall fill the trees
You'd best make warm the eves.'

Grown callous is the old Crow,
He'd mock even the sun,
Eyes as black as blood
Bone crack in the craw

He'd say, he'd say,
Always a 'Never mind'

All my life I been poor boy son,
Scratchin' for my meat
I have been kicked in my teeth,
Till the blood run hot and sweet

I seen a lot of living my friend,
And this I will repeat,
Just because you knock a man down
Don't mean that you got him beat

It's a shame,shame,shame
Baby it's a cryin' shame

Henry nearly killed me,
'Fore they hauled his ass in jail
Slapped me right across my face

Papa's in the kitchen,
Mama's in the field
There's a murder in the hen house
Mud flung high upon the wheels

Ol' rooster in the dooryard
He's just leanin' on the horn
With the wind so sweetly driftin'
Through the ripening corn

Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been for so long, for so long?
Hey Me, Hey Mama
Where you been, where you been for so long?

There's something outrageous
'Bout that evening sky

Hear me out
Day follows day
Light turns to clay in my hands
How to explain,
So pristine the pain
Kindness made the cut so clean

I still care for you (care for you)
I still care for you (care for you)
I still care for you (care for you)

Hear me out
You wanted to me to be
Less your love than a mirror
Can't you see
What you mean to me?
Even promises may bleed

I still care for you (care for)

There comes a time,
A time in everyone's life
Where nothing seems to go their way,
Where nothing seems to turn out right
There may come a time,
You just can't seem to find your place
For every door you open,
Seems like you get two slammed in your face

That's when you need someone,
Someone that you, you can call
When all your faith is gone,
It feels like you can't go on

Let it be me

When we first met we were kids, we were wild, we were insects
And after a while, I grew coarse, I grew cold, I grew reckless
I hold this memory, hold you so close to me,
Whispered were we always happy
Lately it feels like I'm asleep, and I just can't wake up
Pacing the floor, want to call, but I can't so I hang up
Sharing a secret on the train,
With a lady who's crying has ruined her make up

It's the Widow now that owns that angry plow,
The spartan Mule and The Crippled Cow
The fallow field that will yield no more,
As the fox lay sleeping beneath her kitchen floor

The stream can't contain such the withering rain,
And from the pasture the fence it is leaning away
The clouds crack and growl
Like some great cat on the prowl
Crying out, "I am, I am" over and over again

Baby
It's been a long day, baby
Things ain't been going my way
And now I need you here
To clear my mind, all the time
And baby
The way you move me, it's crazy
It's like you see right through me,
And make it easier
Believe me, you don't even have to try

Oh, because
You are the best thing (you're the best thing)
You are the best thing (you're the best thing, baby)