Big Blue Sky

I see her up there,
She is dancing on the wind with her lover,
And maybe one or the other sees me smiling
In the sun's summer light at their perfect flight.
She sees me watching her
As she climbs and circles round,
Now she's falling and i hear him calling her
As their wings cut through the blue and the white.
I watch their perfect flight,
Sometimes i see you, you're walkin' all alone in the furs.
I want to free you but you're no longer mine.
Maybe you never were,
Although sometimes peace can find me
When i'm all alone and lying in a meadow
And bathing in the shadows
And as the sun drips down
And day turns to night
I watch their perfect flight.

Hold on to your love,
But don't hold on too tight.
And death is just a word we use to counter life.
We blame it on the dove,
When we cannot be free.
We curse the stars above and say the rosary.
So take her by the hand,
Tell her truths and lies,
And love her while you can, before she learns to fly.
And try to understand
She has not gone wild.
Though she's your little girl, she is not a child anymore.
Her heart and mind are strong,
She wants to make a change.
No one's in the wrong, no need to rearrange.
Her love is always there,
A simple state of mind.
So join her if you care -- the truth is in her eyes.
The truth is in her eyes, in her eyes.

There are blackberry brambles down where the railroads cross
And old timer trees wearing the spanish moss
No better place for a boy to get lost in a dream
He won't learn to tell a real lie for another year or two
Or offer any alibis just to please you
Forgetting the truth is something odd for him to do
It seems the sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing
Well the boy becomes a bigger boy and that bigger boy yearns to write
So his eyeballs take a good look at a new book every night
It's cover to cover page by page as he reads left to right
He may learn to tell his own tale in some summer yet to come
But for now he serves it piecemeal never sure it's ever done
And like the color of a baby's eye
You see him change from this to that into someone
The sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing
I've been staring out this window through last years fingerprints
Studying each cloud form as it came and as it went
Slowing down the world to a crawl is a planned accident
The sky's the limit for the bird on the wing
Every minute now the view is changing
It's life on earth with the ground as an optional thing

He's a walkin' contradiction when he sings his verse.
He's got a caffeine fix addiction but it could be worse.
And he is loved by many understood in time.
But it's easier to love him than to try to read his mind.
He's a mass of words expression and toil,
And his temples in the trees, the water and the soil --
He's a man of evolution, always changing like the seasons.
He finds the right solution but gets lost in his own reason,
And he's got a ways to go.
I know he's doing what he can.
Sometimes this world's a lonely place for the evolution man,
But she's always been there for him.
She's his steady ground, and he'll never ever own her,
It's the other way around.
'cause she's the way out of here,
She's the needle in his vein,
And he knows she's the only thing that will ever stop the pain.
He stands there naked in the light giving all he's got.
Most folks don't understand that
We're no different than the rocks and stones.
To the evolution man she said,
"i got a funny feelin' that i'm headed somewhere new and
There ain't no use in stealin' your sweet sweet dream from you
'cause i know you'll find what you want if i set you free...
And i'll still be here if you find that what you want is me,
'cause it's a long and lonely road.
I know you're doing what you can
But i never thought it would be so hard to love
The evolution man.
You're an evolution man."

It's four o'clock in the mornin',
I hate to call you when it's stormin',
But i didn't have a choice.
I know you must be sleepin',
Don't wanna wake you from your dreamin',
It's so good to hear your voice.
Did you win your game?
Do you feel the same?
I can smell the rain from here.
I love you so much.
I miss your touch.
Feels like i've been gone a year.
One hundred miles from spartanburg,
Just outside of orangeburg,
I'm in my head tonight.
The place i played was a drag, shari.
Don't know why i even gig there,
But the band was good and tight.
How's your mom and dad?
God it makes me sad to be apart from you.
Are your kids ok?
Tell 'em i said "hey."
I'll be home sunday after two.
Shari, i don't know where i'm goin',
Don't know which way the wind is blowin'.
I just hope i'm doin' right.
I feel the cold wind in my face now,
But i'm pickin' up the pace now.
I guess we both should say goodnight.
I hope you win your game.
You know i feel the same.
I'll be home soon to wipe away your tears.
I love you so much.
I miss your touch.
Feels like i've been gone a year.
Is it stormin' still?
Are there daffodils?
I can smell that rain from here.

If i take this opportunity to tell you what happened,
Will it destroy our unity?
Will there be nothing left to tap into?
I hate to lay this on you, but i've been holding back these tears.
This morning i awakened from a dream so real
It's in my memory and has been for fifteen years,
And i don't mind if you have to tell someone --
I had to tell someone.
That's why i'm telling you.
Times were different then, and i was very young,
But i'm older now.
I'm angry now.
I don't know what to do.
I never thought i'd hate him,
But i've got to tell you brother,
My childhood has been taken.
I know now i was the other lover,
And i fought him the best way i could.
I got the hell out of there but it still cuts me like cold steel,
And i split like wood.
Sometimes i wonder if he knows or cares.
And it's alright if you have to tell someone --
I had to tell someone.
That's why i'm telling you.
Times were different then, and i was very young,
But i'm older now.
I'm angry now.
I don't know what to do, he thinks it all surrounds him.
That's just the way it is, don't want my kids around him.
But i can tell you this -- i don't expect you to feel the way i feel,
But i didn't know what else to do.
They say these things take time to heal.
I can start by telling you,
I can start by telling you,
I can start by telling you.