Music by Billy Gewin, Mike Talbot and Jack
Petras
Lyrics by Billy Gewin
(Originally
from Good, Smart Bear)
Full-length MP3 from 2004 with King
Friday
You're strong as snow in the sun
On the side of a mountain in
April
Hang high from the thin weather's thread
'Til you see yourself walking below
Cross the desert and go it alone
Make your bed on a
matress of rocks and stone
Fight the dragon with only foul genstures
And
bleeding tell all of us
There's no need to worry so
You're hard to turn as a boulder
Staring face-down in the
mud
Keep idle the heads and the shoulders
Of all of us people you love
Your time's leaving with or without you
Clinging frozen to
the windows of safe, little girls
Facing life like a cold, ruthless
wind
'Til the warmest of breezes makes you tremble and burns your skin
Left your tracks in the open
Down the trail of weakness and I
took a chance
To go stirring the shepherd in the dead of night
Just a
soldier that never would see
©2000 Billy Gewin, Mike talbot and Jack Petras