[00:00.661]Oh thanksgiving the harvest draws to a close
[00:10.941]Pride of man will swallow him
[00:16.211]For he reaps what he sows
[00:21.331]Oh living it's harder every day
[00:31.821]Only in the darkness can you see you've lost your way
[00:59.811]I recollect the Rose of Sharon had come back again
[01:04.81]The trees were blowing in the breeze all high above my head
[01:08.261]When a cavalcade of memories
[01:10.491]Appeared to me in words I wished I'd said
[01:17.11]From that point on a song stayed in my thoughts most of the time
[01:21.391]But when I tried to sing it out loud it would always leave my mind
[01:25.451]Like the things you know are true
[01:28.111]But never can explain when you get asked
[01:43.437]A melody floating just within your grasp it goes
[02:07.180]When I was a child I always remember
[02:11.370]The way I would feel 4th Thursday November
[02:15.660]My uncles would play there would be music
[02:19.710]And I was taking it in
[02:24.880]Only much later I noticed the drinking
[02:28.620]The feeling my family was growing and sinking
[02:33.40]St Petersburg Palace stain glass in sun
[02:37.50]They were well on their way I had only begun
[02:59.290]So boy meets a girl Venus and Adonis
[03:03.250]Friendship on fire adulthood upon us
[03:07.680]They teach you to fly then spend all of their time
[03:11.770]Standing over you clipping your wings
[03:16.810]Where there was a me there could be an us
[03:20.770]I dreamt about money she talked about trust
[03:25.280]She is my axis death is by foxes
[03:29.400]And we were well on our way in
[03:34.150]America this is home
[03:38.530]Stories everybody's got one
[03:42.970]This is mine you will have your own
[03:47.40]Nothing like the real thing nothing like it
[03:55.980]Cleaner than Christmas or our wedding day
[03:59.710]I knew her father was pissed though he wouldn't say it
[04:04.420]I would be too and someday I will be
[04:08.660]No kid could be good enough
[04:13.470]Taking on Sunday taking on owls
[04:17.670]Catching a glimpse of the wolf as it howls
[04:21.700]Got a lot of nice things got a really nice house
[04:26.40]Done is so beautiful
[04:29.250]On Father's Day I'm thinking of mothers
[04:34.530]I can only suppose they're thinking of others
[04:39.190]Insurance is up it came in the mail
[04:43.120]Yeah it kills me what they're charging for little white pills
[05:05.620]I blow through the years like a mother defending its own
[05:10.410]And I fear I'm driving on spare tires
[05:14.120]Seems like I'll never get home like I'll never get home
[05:19.740]Like I'm getting threadbare
[05:22.950]I can't find my way she showed me the map
[05:26.620]I still can't believe I acted like that
[05:30.970]Just follow your heart up past most of the brain
[05:35.410]If you get lost at reason move down past pain
[05:40.380]I'll see you in court bring your raincoat
[05:44.670]I'm keeping the kids I'm keeping the house
[05:48.540]It takes minutes to make us a baby
[05:51.850]And years to remember what that was about
[05:56.480]America this is home
[06:02.160]Stories everybody's got one
[06:06.530]When we die what will we have done
[06:10.450]Nothing like the real thing nothing like it
[06:19.550]It's snowing in April something's changing in me
[06:23.490]It's the sound of a heart getting clean baby
[06:27.850]I traded in booze for loads of caffeine
[06:32.40]And my friends they traded in me
[06:35.820]Another Thanksgiving and I'm all alone
[06:40.670]My favorite holiday and nobody's home
[06:44.930]No shame in the past no pride in the future
[06:49.520]I know believe I know
[06:52.940]Those years we spent talking learning to agree
[06:57.880]The truth is I'm just thankful you tolerated me
[07:02.480]So many thorns not enough roses
[07:07.10]My girls as they sleep the eye as it closes
[07:14.10]This year for Thanksgiving I'm keeping my list short
[07:18.20]No one gets married no one gets divorced
[07:22.380]Can you imagine
[07:24.480]What if the world could stand still for even a day
[07:31.320]If there was no crime no rape and no killing
[07:35.440]Addictions suspended no cutting or drilling
[07:39.750]If everyone took the day off and hung out with their friends
[07:45.420]Their favorite friends
[07:48.850]I know what you're saying it's not realistic
[07:52.820]I've heard it my whole life look at the statistics
[07:57.240]But lucky for us I'm not a guy that gives up
[08:02.590]I never give up I go la la la la la
[08:09.910]I go la la la la la
[08:25.810]Oh Thanksgiving the harvest draws to a close
[08:34.200]Redemption is a bugle humility composed
[08:45.50]Sweet forgiveness thawing across frozen ground
[08:55.890]Casting light eternally carrying its sound