I Was a Fool

Out in the evening past the bridge and below

Frogs and cicadas left and right growling low.

I've spent so much time round here when spring is done

Been here a thousand times, not heard a single one.

Birds in the morning while I'm shoveling the snow

Coffee pot wheezing soft as my stereo

All of the things I've had whether I've known or not

All of the things I've known and then somehow forgot

When I was young riding around

Beer in my lap, one window down

Bird in the tree, kiss on the mouth

I thought that I had figured it out

I was a fool. Then I met you.

Dusk was the longest hour when I was a kid.

Beautiful things sometimes can seem pretty hid.

Funny the things that make you want to walk the land

Are the things sometimes you barely understand?

Found lots of crooked road before I found you

Hard to curse any road but sometimes you do.

Feeling all strung out, drawn up from head to gut

I was calling out, I didn't know for what

When I was young riding around

Beer in my lap, one window down

Bird in the hand, kiss on the mouth

I thought that I had figured it out

All of these things so hard to find

Up in my face, lost to my mind

Hand on the knee, kiss in the mouth

I thought that I had figured it out

I was a fool.