Simple Things

Maybe I was always crazy, I didn’t want to know
I was always leaving without knowing where to go
And you were always standing by me as if somehow you knew
Was it just a test of faith or were you just crazy too
Crazy too

I went from town to town for weeks and months and days
With my guitar strapped across my back, my heart locked in its case
I used to stare up at the stars and cry myself to sleep
If no one liked these songs of mine, I wasn’t worth a thing

Bitter dreams
Seventeen
Lots of things
What did I think

Your door was always open and your bed it was un-made
And we’d pull the covers on us and we’d sleep for half a day
And then you’d light the candles and we’d lie under the moon
The night would pass too quickly and the day would come too soon

Simple things
Honesty
You gave to me
Everything

Did you know then, and did you see how I was
So lost and so incomplete
Well you gave me everything that I could call my own
And gave me something that I’d never known

Simple things
Simple things

I stand outside my house at night and listen to the sounds
Of dinner dishes, television, kids running around
And through an open window I can see you sitting there
Looking like you used to, before your graying hair

Simple things
Honesty
Come to me
Lie with me

Now I know yes, and now I see how I was
So lost and so incomplete
Well I’ve held my babies and I’ve soothed their cries
And I pray to God that in their lives they’ll find

Simple things
Simple things

Maybe I was always crazy, maybe too far gone
But there’s nothing like a sprinkler spraying rainbows on the lawn
And nothing like I’ve ever felt or like I’ve ever seen
When the kettle blows its horn, you should hear it sing

Simple things
Wait for me
All I need
Come to me….