A Song for Our Grandfathers

Been a long time in a low place
 Surrounded by what I have made
 Need to get away
 Get away from what relates
 And what was done
 'Cause it's all over now
 
 Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf
 And call my name
 In the lines there's not a trace
 I hear the ghost's whisper
 And his old eyes watching me
 But I feel safe
 Grandfather looking over me
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 And he said: Don't make 'em wait
 Gotta go a long way
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 Let's be brave
 Don't make them wait
 No, don't make them wait
 I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee
 Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me
 These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze
 Now it's fallow fields
 And clear-cut barren weeds
 They said that if I stared
 The abyss would stare back at me
 And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me
 Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag
 It made me think about the way it all came to be
 Grandmama watching over me
 And she said: Don't make 'em wait
 Gotta go a long way
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 Let's be brave
 Show them the way
 Ah, don't make them wait
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 Don't make them wait, nah
 Don't make them wait
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 I hear the ghost whisper
 And those old eyes are watching me
 But I feel safe
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 I feel safe