It's so easy to cash in these chips on my shoulders So easy to loose this old tongue like a tiger It's easy to let all this bitterness smolder Just to
they smile and they smile, 'Cause they love to see me run CHORUS Now we're counting stars and counting sand Little feet and little hands We're counting
Somewhere along the Scottish coast And emerald island lies And I will steer my sailing boat Unto the Isle of Skye The weather's always changing From
We chose the spot, we dug the hole We laid the maples in the ground to have and hold As Autumn falls to Winters sleep We pray that somehow in the Spring
I was nineteen, you were twenty-one The year we got engaged Everyone said we were much too young But we did it anyway We bought our rings for forty each
I am weary with the pain of Jacob's wrestling In the darkness with the Fear, in the darkness with the Fear But he met the morning wounded with a blessing
Come climb the hill with me Come and be still with me Come watch the sun sink away If you will with me Come watch the garden grow Down by the gravel
sure And the sky in Nashville It can bend you low 'Cause the winter here is gray Without a trace of snow But there is no shadow On the silver stars
I can see the storm descending on the hill tonight Tall trees are bending to your will tonight Let the mighty bow down At the thundering sound of your
I grew up in a little town A southern mix of lost and found Where most folks seem to stick around But I could hear the highway song I'd sit out on the
If you'll step inside this great glass elevator It'll take us up above the city lights To where the planet curves away to the equator I want to show you