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lyrics

When I was just a boy of six playing on the sand,
my father there beside me the ocean crashing down,
he’d paint the changing shoreline catching light with his hand. Surrounded by the mountains, listening to the sea,
or walking through the forest naming everything we’d see,
he never feared the movement living in the trees.

When our fathers and their fathers are all buried in the ground.
The wind moving over stone makes the only sound.
I will stand here by the river with my head bowed down,
and I’ll be home. I’ll be home.

When the future rolls into me like a darkness coming on,
and the weight of time behind me tries to push me to the ground,
I will find the words he left along the road that led to now,
and I’ll be home. I’ll be home, going home.

Give me light upon the land, a riverbed of sound.
Give me light to bind me when the dark wind overwhelms.
Hear the words my feet reveal hard upon the ground.
Light the way with knowing without knowing where it leads.
Memory’s not a burden but a fire you burn in need.
When I turned and he was gone, he was ahead of me.

When our fathers and their fathers are all buried in the ground.
The wind moving over stone makes the only sound.
I will stand here by the river with my head bowed down,
and I’ll be home. I’ll be home.

And the world I leave behind me I still carry on in name.
Regret is just a step I took but got here all the same.
When the words I leave along the road are lights that shine the way,
I’ll be home. I’ll be home, going home.

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from The Longest Day of the Year, released June 6, 2015
Lyrics and Music, Paul Tyler

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The Dustbowl Daddies Ottawa, Ontario

For The Dustbowl Daddies, music is about bringing people together. Combining four-voice harmony with an acoustic/electric folk feel, backed up with old-time banjo, mandolin, Telecaster twang and swinging trumpet, we write high energy, upbeat tunes that get people moving. ... more

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