Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Lyrics

Song Thanksgiving
Artist Stephen Kellogg
Album Blunderstone Rookery
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[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
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