Song Lyrics

[Nico]

I think when it comes to songs that I really adore and return to time and again, the whole package- music, words, performance- really has to move me for that love to sustain. But I am really, really moved by lyrics. I've always been. And I thought I'd start a thread about song lyrics that really mean a lot to us.

Right now I'd have to say this song is IT for me. Really just perfect:

WILL IT GROW (Jakob Dylan)

I made a promise to not let go
Our tug of war has only made me want you more
Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam
My love is braver than you know
My forefathers they worked this land
And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature's plans
Dressed in thunder a cloud came round
In the shape of a lion a hand came down

Damn this valley
Damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me will it grow

Dig my ditches in the golden sun
I'd be robbing these trains if I could catch me one
Sunday Monday now Tuesday's gone
Got me stone cold sober n a drought so long
Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards
There's a boy in a water tower counting cars
Steel traps open and empty stalls
There's a well-worn saddle but the horse is gone

Damn this valley
Damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me will it grow

Jet black starlit midnight rolls
I am down in the garden where I let go
Here on the surface the earth looks round
But it's a godless city of cold flat ground

Damn this valley
Damn this cold
Take so long to let me know
It's plant and reap and plow and sow
But tell me will it grow

I love this entire album. I've kinda always had a thing for Jakob Dylan since the Wallflowers first started, years ago. Love his music, love him. He's deep...er. yeah,I love his dad to but that's neither here nor there.