bryan field mcfarland ₪ sassafrasongs: Listen

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This song is the result of coming to terms with this travelling, singing lifestyle and my own mortality.

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I'm on a highway through the Shenandoah
Sky so blue that it hurts my eyes
I've got a cedar-topped box bound with koa
Packed in the back with a week's supplies
I see construction cones in the lane ahead
and it looks like I'll have to merge
So I'm signaling right like a ton o' lead
These other captains won't let me converge

I'm on a rippling ribbon through the world today
I got my windows rolled down and my hopes up high
I'll let this blacktop river roll my blues away
I don't even need to know why
Yeah, it's a great day to live...a great day to die

Out on the road sometimes it gets so lonesome
all I can do is feel the wind
The way stretched out in front of me can be so awesome
Sometimes it seems like my only friend
I feel instruction in the heat off the highway
Like the Spirit is settling in
Riding this knife edge - going my way
Life could stop. Life could begin.

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Death is just a door, just a passageway,
just another part of being
All the lore ain't gonna scare me away
And it’s not that I'm foreseeing.
Oh, I'm good to go, but I would rather stay,
Cuz there's more here I need to get done
I've got this feeling now that death's my friend,
Not some frightening oblivion

I took a walk last night down by the river
Stinging stars in the Milky Way
And as my leaf crunch steps made me shiver
I caught a whiff of death in the Fall decay
I see destruction looming in the days ahead
These trees are gonna be so bare
And I'm reminded of what Quoheleth said.
No, there's "nothing new" anywhere! [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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