Half Mile Hill

Album: The Sound of a Million Dreams (2011)
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  • Half Mile Hill, eight years old
    Standing on top with the world below
    Me and my dad
    Talking man to man
    Suitcase packed, he was moving out
    Said, It's no one's fault, but I had my doubts
    And I have them still
    Up on Half Mile Hill

    You can see the ball fields
    Watch the cars go 'round the courthouse
    See the sun go down
    Where the street lamps glow
    On those checkerboard roads
    Wishing I could fly like a cut-string kite
    Tapping on the floor of heaven
    Is anybody listening?

    Half Mile Hill, seventeen
    Tailing the summer, Angie and me
    Kicking beer cans off the side
    One last time
    She was wildcat tough, I was scarecrow thin
    We were thick as theives 'til the bitter end
    Trying to make time stand still
    Up on Half Mile Hill

    You can see the ball fields
    Watch the cars go 'round the courthouse
    See the sun go down
    Where the street lamps glow
    On those checkerboard roads
    Wishing I could fly like a cut-string kite
    Tapping on the floor of heaven
    Is anybody listening?

    Hey all, you lovers and leavers
    Stuck in-betweeners
    Loners and stoners
    Old drunks and dreamers
    Rumbling and stumbling
    Always looking for something
    Past that no trespassing sign

    You can see the ball fields
    Watch the cars go 'round the courthouse
    See the sun go down
    Where the Street lamps glow
    On those checkerboard roads
    Wishing I could fly like a cut-string kite
    Tapping on the floor of heaven
    Tapping on the floor of heaven

    Is anybody listening?
    (Is anybody listening?)
    Up on Half Mile Hill
    Is anybody listening?
    (Is anybody listening?) Writer/s: Mark Selby, Rick Brantley, Tia Sillers
    Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., ME GUSTA MUSIC
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