I'd Like to Take You with Me When I Go

It's a time for sights and visions It's a time to make decisions It's a time to watch the old skin blow away When you hear that whistle blowing When you see that river flowing You gotta jump up and leave your troubles for the day You don't have to worry, though surrounded by this strife Find a plot to tend to, and let the tending be your life Keep learning til there's nothing left to know I'd like to take you with me when I go Jesus loves the sinner Doesn't care if you're a winner The famous now will later be the fraud Well, there's a time for reaping And there's a time for weeping And there's a time for giving thanks to God You can curse the years you wasted. Yes, time can seem so cruel But you have to earn your wisdom from the time you spent a fool When I finally hear that mighty trumpet blow I'd like to take you with me when I go He was sixteen on a summer night, just tearing down the street Now he's shouting in the hospital and pissing in his sheets First you feel her skin upon yours and the moon is hanging down Then you come home for the funeral as a stranger in your own town Well, I know the path is narrow That his eye is on the sparrow And that everything comes back to him in time I see the ripples in the water I see the handwork of the potter In the twisted path that brought your hand to mine I spent years on all those battles. Now they don't matter much to me. When your fragile self just shatters, then you're half the way to free Said He saw Granddad though he died some years ago I'd like to take you with me when I go