The Garden Wheel

Album: People Who Aren't There Anymore (2024)
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  • Now every stone has a face
    Every leaf, there's a bead of sweat
    That drops it's embrace the day that I left
    The day that we met, a story you loved
    And life isn't mine
    For a time, it was mine

    At peace, in the place where we slept
    Without anger, without language, lately
    But now it's rising in me like a fiend and I feed
    At least, I feel what I need, isn't proof
    But some truth of the story, maybe

    Of how we worked to till the soil
    Until the labor all but spoiled
    How we worked the earth so much it turned to dust

    How am I supposed to feel?
    When the robins steal from the cardinals in the garden
    Turn the autumn wheel
    It's how we're supposed to feel
    When the onions peel
    And the harvest was the hardest in the garden

    I dream of the roads that we'd weave in the winter
    Through fields, all covered in stones
    That would dance when the night came calling
    And the quarry of things and the ring
    That went laughing down there
    Was it the first missing thing, that we'll never see?
    Until they find him

    And how I searched upon the shore
    Until my knees were red and sore
    Because I feared the rest of us would start to rust

    How am I supposed to feel?
    When the robins steal from the cardinals in the garden
    Turn the autumn wheel
    It's how it's supposed to feel
    When the onions peel
    'Cause the harvest was the hardest in the garden Writer/s: Gerrit Welmers, Mike Lowry, Samuel T Herring, William Cashion
    Publisher: THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC, Third Side Music Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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