Old Pine

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags

I've come to know that memories

Were the best things you ever had

The summer shone, beat down on bony backs

So far from home, where the ocean stood

Down dust and pine cone tracks

We slept like dogs down by the fire side

Awoke to the fog where all around us

The boom of summertime

We stood steady as the stars

In the woods so happy-hearted

And the warmth rang true inside these bones

And as the old pine fell we sang

Just to bless the morning

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags

I've come to know the friends around you

Are all you'll always have

Smoke in my lungs, the echoed stone

Careless and young, free as the birds that fly

With weightless souls

We stood steady as the stars

In the woods so happy-hearted

And the warmth rang true inside these bones

And as the old pine fell we sang

Just to bless the morning

We grow, grow steady as the morning

We grow older still

We grow, grow happy as a new dawn

Older still