morning song

woke up this morning with this song in my head:

i had a lot of good intentions
sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension
started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts

but my life is more than a vision
the sweetest part is acting after making a decision
i started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts

i look behind my ears for the green
even my sweat smells clean
glare off the white hurts my eyes

gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
learn how to use my hands, not just my head
i think myself into jail

now i know a refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

my life is part of the global life
i'd found myself becoming more immobile
when i'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.

a distant nation my community
a street person my responsibility
if i have a care in the world, i have a gift to bring

i look behind my ears for the green
even my sweat smells clean
glare off the white hurts my eyes

gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
learn how to use my hands, not just my head
i think myself into jail

now i know a refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

song:  hammer and a nail
artist:  indigo girls
album:  nomads indians saints

Posted by jason at April 30, 2005 07:30 AM