Until I Learn How To Fly

from A Walk In The Sun by Jeff Black

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Until I Learn How To Fly

I’d like to start at the beginning
when the world was turning slow
Little Medicine Creek is rolling easy
through summer fields of green and gold

I can see you running barefoot mama
dancing down the hill
along the fencerow where
the garden is growing
with the blackbird and the whippoorwill

it’s such a bittersweet farewell for now
and since I don’t know how to say goodbye
I’ll just keep on kicking this stone down the road
until I learn how to fly

have we not been here forever
have we not seen everything
every footstep so familiar to me
are you changing skies on a bluebird’s wing

What I would not give for one more day
or to see through those hazel eyes
from above the sky
before the stars
fade away

I’ve been dreaming about a Catherine wheel
lighting up the night
diamond sparks in a ribbon of smoke
disappearing in a ring of fire

it’s such a bittersweet farewell for now
and since I don’t know how to say goodbye
I’ll just keep on kicking this stone down the road
until I learn how to fly
until I learn how to fly

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from A Walk In The Sun, released February 14, 2020

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“His words and voice hold down center stage with a craft so deeply in the artistic pocket that it obscures anything outside.” - No Depression

"The tradition of an artist delivering songs that are damn near perfectly crafted and filled with the wisdom of the ages."

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