USED TO BE ALRIGHT- by I Mother Earth
(Sometimes you hear a song 1000 times and you miss what its saying because you never really thought about the words)
It's pretty good, the wineThe way that we look atTen to eight in the morning
Just talking, still awake inDawn and dew drinking, thinking Always...
Remembering the laughs, the timeWe got high for seven days down
In New Orleans and it seemed likeNo one else knew we were just
The moon and sun in fog before theHeat burned it away and took
The sleep from tired heads onBeds of reaching hands, of road trip
Breath and long tall freedomAnd then you longFor the days of trippin' down
The long road just reading theSigns that show you the way to
A higher place you meditate toFeel the quiet of the earthThat was back
When we used to be alrightAnother shame, the wayThe city smells worse on
A hot day in August...2 PMRight before us good moversMove and us shakers break
Our hearts getting home to Country love and the garbage
Dump by the dried up creekNear the forest that once had life
And then I turn on the newsSomebody shoot me soon
I'm tired of over heating, fallingQuick to bending knees and
Broken veins, of always needingFaith to get to shore and break
All the vows I've madeNo time or presence Of mind to wonder why
No time for questions ofWhy I wonder whySomething's wrong...again
The noise shakes the groundThere's a rage inThe crowd and I'm a face
In the crowd, what's your name?You're sinkin' in the sand
Standing next to me, a riverRunning through your pants, afraid
To trust me when my hands Are helping you