Spring Wind - Greg Brown

I lived awhile without you

Darn near half my life

I no longer see our unborn children

Born to you my unwed wife

But yesterday I had a vision

Beneath the tree where we once talked

Of an old couple burning

Their love letters so their children

Won’t be shocked

Love calls like the wild birds-

It’s another day

A Spring wind blew my list of

Things to do… away

My friends are gettin older

So I guess I must be too

Without their loving kindness

I don’t know what I’d do

Oh the wine bottle’s half empty-

The money’s all spent

And we’re a cross between our parents

And hippies in a tent

In a mucked up lovely river

I cast my little fly

I look at that river and smell it

And it makes me wanna cry

Oh to clean our dirty planet

Now there’s a noble wish

And I’m puttin my shoulder to the wheel

'cause I wanna catch some fish

Children go to sleep now-

You know it’s gettin' late

I know you don’t like to miss nothin'

And school ain’t that great

Oh, I’ll dance with you when you’re happy

And hold you when you’re sad

And hope you know how glad I am

Just to be you’re Dad

Darlin' it’s been a hard go

But I think we’ll be okay

I know I say that all the time

Like everything else I say

Oh, I’ve been gone so often

But every time I miss you

And I don’t really know nothin'

Except I like to kiss you