Lyrics

Song For Bob



I’m sitting here again in a roomful of friends

and I wonder if words can be found

to place laughing eyes in the faces that cry

coming up from so far underground

And I’ve lost all my dreams and there’s no way it seems

to go back to dreaming again

but if silence is best, lay me down to rest

the hour that ship comes in



Oh I once found a friend in the words that you’d send

they were stronger than one man could be

Instead of hollow refrains we sang only in games

we took comfort in what you could see

But the children must try for the old folks must die

It’s always the wheel that’s in spin

and if silence is best, lay me down to rest

the hour that ship comes in



Though cities turn to sand and the mountains that stand

may crumble, and words turn to stone

still the morning begins and the questions in the wind

are still calling out for a song

so if I sing on a street and our shadows should meet

I’ll take pride just to stand where you’ve been

and if silence is best, lay me down to rest

the hour that ship comes in