Long Time Gone

Love my daddy and I love him true He's got dreams to spare in his eyes of blue But he's a cheater and I'm his child With his silver tongue and his easy smile Lord, it scares me it makes me shake I was born to burn and bound to break But that's the thing about blood they say That it's mostly water anyway So I get up with the dawn And I wander to the sea Kneel by the shore To wash my spirit clean Of all the dirty stories Of who I'm supposed to be They'll be a long time gone Love my darlin' and I love him free Love the way he moves in me Warm and welcome like summer rain And gone as quickly as he came How I'd like to wake by him And watch his face as the sun comes in But it's hard to open when something starts Love's the horse and fear's the cart But I get up with the sun And I kiss him on the head Soon long days will be gone Soon the dandelions dead And I cried with the Pacific And I blessed the words he said They were a long time gone Everyday you get to choose Between gilded wings and leaded boots Sinner's daughter, baby green Find me somewhere in between And get me up at dawn By someone that I love Before the ground is warm Before I try to run And breathe me in the morning Another one I chose Before a long time's gone I'll be a long time gone