Thanksgiving-Stephen Kellogg

[00:00.661]Oh thanksgiving the harvest draws to a close [00:10.941]Pride of man will swallow him [00:16.211]For he reaps what he sows [00:21.331]Oh living it's harder every day [00:31.821]Only in the darkness can you see you've lost your way [00:59.811]I recollect the Rose of Sharon had come back again [01:04.81]The trees were blowing in the breeze all high above my head [01:08.261]When a cavalcade of memories [01:10.491]Appeared to me in words I wished I'd said [01:17.11]From that point on a song stayed in my thoughts most of the time [01:21.391]But when I tried to sing it out loud it would always leave my mind [01:25.451]Like the things you know are true [01:28.111]But never can explain when you get asked [01:43.437]A melody floating just within your grasp it goes [02:07.180]When I was a child I always remember [02:11.370]The way I would feel 4th Thursday November [02:15.660]My uncles would play there would be music [02:19.710]And I was taking it in [02:24.880]Only much later I noticed the drinking [02:28.620]The feeling my family was growing and sinking [02:33.40]St Petersburg Palace stain glass in sun [02:37.50]They were well on their way I had only begun [02:59.290]So boy meets a girl Venus and Adonis [03:03.250]Friendship on fire adulthood upon us [03:07.680]They teach you to fly then spend all of their time [03:11.770]Standing over you clipping your wings [03:16.810]Where there was a me there could be an us [03:20.770]I dreamt about money she talked about trust [03:25.280]She is my axis death is by foxes [03:29.400]And we were well on our way in [03:34.150]America this is home [03:38.530]Stories everybody's got one [03:42.970]This is mine you will have your own [03:47.40]Nothing like the real thing nothing like it [03:55.980]Cleaner than Christmas or our wedding day [03:59.710]I knew her father was pissed though he wouldn't say it [04:04.420]I would be too and someday I will be [04:08.660]No kid could be good enough [04:13.470]Taking on Sunday taking on owls [04:17.670]Catching a glimpse of the wolf as it howls [04:21.700]Got a lot of nice things got a really nice house [04:26.40]Done is so beautiful [04:29.250]On Father's Day I'm thinking of mothers [04:34.530]I can only suppose they're thinking of others [04:39.190]Insurance is up it came in the mail [04:43.120]Yeah it kills me what they're charging for little white pills [05:05.620]I blow through the years like a mother defending its own [05:10.410]And I fear I'm driving on spare tires [05:14.120]Seems like I'll never get home like I'll never get home [05:19.740]Like I'm getting threadbare [05:22.950]I can't find my way she showed me the map [05:26.620]I still can't believe I acted like that [05:30.970]Just follow your heart up past most of the brain [05:35.410]If you get lost at reason move down past pain [05:40.380]I'll see you in court bring your raincoat [05:44.670]I'm keeping the kids I'm keeping the house [05:48.540]It takes minutes to make us a baby [05:51.850]And years to remember what that was about [05:56.480]America this is home [06:02.160]Stories everybody's got one [06:06.530]When we die what will we have done [06:10.450]Nothing like the real thing nothing like it [06:19.550]It's snowing in April something's changing in me [06:23.490]It's the sound of a heart getting clean baby [06:27.850]I traded in booze for loads of caffeine [06:32.40]And my friends they traded in me [06:35.820]Another Thanksgiving and I'm all alone [06:40.670]My favorite holiday and nobody's home [06:44.930]No shame in the past no pride in the future [06:49.520]I know believe I know [06:52.940]Those years we spent talking learning to agree [06:57.880]The truth is I'm just thankful you tolerated me [07:02.480]So many thorns not enough roses [07:07.10]My girls as they sleep the eye as it closes [07:14.10]This year for Thanksgiving I'm keeping my list short [07:18.20]No one gets married no one gets divorced [07:22.380]Can you imagine [07:24.480]What if the world could stand still for even a day [07:31.320]If there was no crime no rape and no killing [07:35.440]Addictions suspended no cutting or drilling [07:39.750]If everyone took the day off and hung out with their friends [07:45.420]Their favorite friends [07:48.850]I know what you're saying it's not realistic [07:52.820]I've heard it my whole life look at the statistics [07:57.240]But lucky for us I'm not a guy that gives up [08:02.590]I never give up I go la la la la la [08:09.910]I go la la la la la [08:25.810]Oh Thanksgiving the harvest draws to a close [08:34.200]Redemption is a bugle humility composed [08:45.50]Sweet forgiveness thawing across frozen ground [08:55.890]Casting light eternally carrying its sound