He went to Hyannis to let go of Alice for the third and final time 

I asked him if it worked when he got back, he said he didn’t have the time 

the time to tell me anything or the time to let her go

But I guess it wasn’t a good time to press, so I guess I’ll never know, I’ll never know

on the way back looking straight ahead, we were hypnotized by the road

saw the coins on the dashboard truck and decide that they could float

in the air I looked down at the time, and mistook it for the radio

I thought about the little choices we made along and the song played on as if it didn’t know 

May we all be forsaken:

Like the soldier trying to leave, the mother trying to sleep

May we all be mistaken:

about our current state, about the current of hate 

bleeding on and on and on to sell our soul

Asked me why I was crying, said I stubbed my toe, and I wanted to blame the roots of the trees for pushing up the concrete but now I know

in the air I looked down at the time, and mistook it for the radio

I thought about the little choices we made along and the song played on as if it didn’t know 

May we all be forsaken:

like the black man trying to breathe, or the woman that’s never believed 

May we all be mistaken:

about our current state, about the current of hate 

Bleeding on and on and on and sell our soul

Ask me why I was crying, said I stubbed my toe and I wanted to blame the roots of the trees for pushing up the concrete but now I know 

May we all be forsaken:

Like the soldier trying to leave, the mother trying to sleep

May we all be mistaken:

about our current state, about the current of hate

May we all be forsaken:

like the black man trying to breathe, or the woman that’s never believed 

May we all be mistaken:

about our current state, about the current of hate

I saw it for a second but then the light was fading 

Sister morphine was my lady in waiting

Can I help it if I can’t help it now, all the stories I tell myself 

What can I say to you all, it’s fair to say, no words will do 

All this time, time is speeding, it’s hard to recognize the life we’re leading 

it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle

cradle to the grave, sword to the saddle, it’s each other we will miss 

 Oh the happiest moment of my life, was the saddest moment of my life

Was in prison when my daddy died

They didn’t tell me for fear of suicide 

Told me when I got outside, I started using as soon as I was alone that night 

And I died and I went up straight to him

He said where you been, my troubled son

All this time, time is speeding, hard to recognize the life we’re leaving 

it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle

cradle to the grave, sword to the saddle, it’s each other we will miss 

Oh the happiest moment of my life, was the saddest moment of my life

Oh my love can I just sit and hold your face. We finally made it here but now the light is low.

All this time, time is speeding, hard to recognize the life we’re leaving 

it’s time to trip the light of the evening and go now

And in this land there’s shade and shadow, we break bread and consecrate the battle

Now I’m feeling kind of faint, I think I need to lay down    

Oh you almost saved me

You almost saved me

You almost saved me now

All this time we pledge allegiance to the tune of a thousand treasons 

One nation under something, under water, under mass incarceration

In the age of feast and famine can we disrupt the social canon

Let our children lead s’we all believe, let us see the forest for the trees

Came of age racing round the Georgia hills

Grew tall and straight around the backwood stills

you could do anything on the court and field, but you preferred getting high on the roof of the motel

One by one all the living that we done, how the days they seemed so long and true

One by one all the whiskey that got drunk, nothing ever felt as good as you

I saw you first from the back of the room

We drank together by the light of the moon

Built a fire and slept when the ground chooses you and wake up with the morning sun

One by one all the living that he done, how the days they seemed so long and true

One by one all the whiskey that got drunk, nothing ever felt as good as you

But can you give us all a sign, I don’t know how to let go or hold tighter still,

remember when you were mine

but now it’s all over, no chance to reconsider, I want to call you in from the outside, I want

to call you in for dinner

but you’re not there, you’re not there, what do I do with the years I have left that don’t belong to you

One by one all the living that he done, how the days they seemed so long and true

One by one i got whiskey i got drum, nothing ever felt as good as you

Let’s get a jump on this, before it’s too late, can we love each other harder before we all fade away, if there’s any way that we can live without you, it’s to live with all the love that you gave

higher yet my love, the water is rising 

up on the counter my love, grab a hold tightly — 

don’t you let go my dear, I can’t let you die 

Til your old as I, as old as I, old as I 

look both ways my dear, don’t trip on your laces

But here you lie shot in your sleep by a bullet gone stray 

you gave me your blessing, to keep you alive til ur 

old as I, as old as I, as old as I …  

I’ll take all your baggage, and I’ll give you mine,

For the passage of the time, for the distance as old as i, as old as I … as old as I 

Down on the courts in Bed Stuy

A legend rose from the streets

Just a poor kid with no use for what the others called gravity 

People came from all around to see young connie Hawkins do his thing

When the hawk went up against the best at Rucker park

oh how the choir would sing   

High flying kid do you know what you just did 

Is It just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go

Hey pa I think I’m gonna make it, I’m going away on a one way ticket 

Is it just a dream love, is it just a dream love, steady you go 

round here those are always sinking, folks will say connie what were you thinking 

He lead the team in Highschool he never once got beat two years in a row

Got a scholarship to Iowa and knew that he had to go

he sent a letter home, to his papa, said papa I’m going to the nba 

But then out of nowhere his name got dropped into a scandal, always someone got to pay 

I got to got to got to get going now pop, there’s a detective here from the DA 

He’s telling me they’ll lock me away, if I don’t say what he wants me to saaaaaaaay 

So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say 

the investigators pushed me around, and then I was black balled by the nba 

That playground legend, who could dunk when he was eleven, with super natural abilities, long before MJ before the Doctor. 

His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun 

And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player that never was

So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn’t like they say 

the investigators pushed me around, and I was black balled by the nba 

His Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, never got his day in the sun 

And now here lies High Flying Hawkins the greatest player there ever was

Rode our horses in the pelting rain over the graves of the last war

Rooster was on a tare about something he’d seen the night before

Then he went quiet, when his horse stopped still in the night

I guess every now and then he the silent type 

From a ramshackle shotgun house we heard a woman just a screaming a name 

said why’d they take him lord, he hasn’t done a thing

But in that moment seemed god slipped out of sight

I guess every now and then he the silent type 

I guess every now and then he the silent type 

Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

Further up the trail we came to ghastly sight

a man hanging from an old oak tree, for looking someone in the eye 

I asked the governor but he ducked back from the light 

I guess every now and then he the silent type 

I guess every now and then he the silent type 

Another storm is coming, we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

Another storm is coming, 

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

we gotta take a stand, so we don’t fall

Oh Do you know there’s a place you can go

A place that is weathered and worn

But you can’t stay there long

like the plow and the stone

but you can wait if you like to be born

Born to a dark heaven on earth

Plagued by man’s greed and sorrow, sorrow and hurt

Born also to the beauty of tomorrow

Leading us back to the dirt

The old oak tree watches us like we were bees

Flitting and frittering in the golden

Everybody knows, we all died yesterday

And the day after that we were born

Born to a dark heaven on earth

Plagued by man’s greed and sorrow, sorrow and hurt

But Born also to the beauty of tomorrow

Leading us back to the dirt

oh my son, don’t you go far

i need you not to go

you are long for this world, stay close to the earth

Just like I told you so

sometimes i feel like we’re falling fast

but we never hit ground

* and as we’re falling

i turn to you

now we know the world ain’t round

now we know the world ain’t round

oh sweet baby you blow my mind

with everything that you do

* we’ll sit right here

for every breath he makes

for the sunlight on his face

and we do it til we break in two

and we do it til we break in two

oh sweet baby you blow my mind

with everything that you do

*you said be strong

for this road that we are on

could be dangerous could be long

*you pour into me

and i’ll pour into you

and we’ll do it til we break in two

oh my son, i see how you fight

now you need to rest

*i know your scared

but we are right here,

pullout bed pulled up near,

with the nurses fighting the fever

like smokejumpers leaving

*their plane for the fire,

and pilot climbs higher

so your dreams don’t get tired

lights blinking all round your head

your like a Giant and the city’s your bed

rest now beautiful boy

you’re going to make it now beautiful boy

sometimes i feel like we’re falling fast

but we never hit ground

*and here we’ll stay,

and fall another day

i can’t remember what to say

where do you think he is

*does he feel our gentle kiss

is he coming back

can i hold him in my lap

away from all of these machines

monitors and IVs

*you pour into me

and i pour into you

we’ll do it til we break in two

oh my son, it’s ok

let the machine breath for you

* you’ll breath again

as soon as you can,

maybe open up your eyes

i think i saw a smile

*when i put the sox game on

on the radio

the light is getting a low

still they do not know

We can’t get any answers

*but you know that it ain’t dark,

in middle of fenway park,

and the crowd sings with all their heart

ah ah ah ah

rest now beautiful boy

rest now my beautiful boy

you going to make it now beautiful boy