One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)

Album: The Whole Love (2011)
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  • This is how I tell it
    O' but it's long
    One Sunday morning
    O' One son is gone

    Against the weather dawning
    Over the sea
    My father said what I had become
    No one should be

    Outside I look lived in
    Like the bones in a shrine
    How am I forgiven
    O' I'll give it time

    This I learned without warning
    Holding my brow
    In time we thought I would kill him
    O' but I didn't know how

    I said it's your God I don't believe in
    No your Bible can't be true
    Knocked down by the long lie
    He cried I fear what waits for you

    I can hear those bells
    Spoken and gone
    I feel relief I feel well
    Now he knows he was wrong

    Ring 'em cold for my father
    Frozen underground
    Jesus I wouldn't bother
    He belongs to me now

    Something sad keeps moving
    So I wandered around
    I fell in love with the burden
    Holding me down

    Bless my mind I miss
    Being told how to live
    What I learned without knowing
    How much more I owe than I can give

    This is how I tell it
    O' but it's long
    One Sunday morning
    One son is gone Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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