Holy Road

from Dressed In All the Wonder of the Garden That We Left by Jess Smart Smiley

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I took a walk just yesterday
down the bridge of time
I got swallowed up in memories
I didn't know were mine
and it felt like my whole childhood
was right before my eyes
it was my whole ancestral line
between the river and the skies

Oh Holy Road!
I feel you at my side
Oh, silver shine!
It's time I took that ride

Well, you shook a stick and shuffled feet
and made a circle in the sand
and you brought us something we could eat
and you put it in my hand
it was the time when we were swallowed by
the forest and the stones
we took the respiratory desert
and we put it in our bones

It was the wind that took my sails
when my business had run dry
it took the airport in the clouds
to make this old airplane fly
it was disease that fueled the river
where my body took a dive
it was the bees that gave me honey
and they brought me back to life

You were dressed in all the wonder
of the garden that we left
and our skin became the green of grass
of fields and hills we wrecked
and it might take up our whole lifetime
to fix what we left out
but it's a lifetime that's worth living
now that we've got things to live about

Your Reaching Hand!
Your Shakin' Tree!
The House Where We Grew Up!
The Legs Below Our Knees!
The Heart That Beats The Time!
The Mountains That Were Born!
That Fabric of Our Mind!
The Glory of the Poor!
The Light Within the Sun!
The Mystery of Moon!
The Work That Must be Done!
Your Empty Tomb!

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from Dressed In All the Wonder of the Garden That We Left, released March 1, 2011

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