Now That I Know

Now that I know

The way it goes

You've gotta pay back every penny that you owe

Twelve years old

In your mama's clothes

Shut the blinds and lock up every door

And if you hear

Someone's coming near

Just close your eyes and make them disappear now

Years away

Finds me here today

On my own and always on my way now

So I send my friends

Gifts from where i've been

Something for the hand that never there to lend

Better keep those eyes

Climbing paradise

And don't pretend you won't reach it in the end now

Dearest dear

I know you've been here

Why'd you run, tell me why'd you disappear

Now that you're not

Here with me

'Seems to be the only time I can see you clearly

I may not know

How to treat or give you what you need

But I am a gentle man who says what he means now

And now I sing

Upon my knees

And praise the kindness of a gentle breeze

I see it swell

Like a story in me to tell

Told years away and past my day of dying

So you raise them up

To have and always have

They're unaware of share or give a hand to help some

Oh you give them away

But they'll come back to you someday

Wanna know why nobody was ever there to help them

And not it ain't fair

And if God forbid you care

It's enough to get you in a whole lot of trouble

Awww realize

It ain't wise to idealize

Or put your life in the hands of any struggle

Never renounce or ever claim to be

And never buy that freedom just ain't free now

Ella sang

Sifting in the sand

Like a hymn within to help us understand

Heaven awaits

We're making our last stand

Glory bound and sparrow in our hand