%%% { Stones In The Road } %%%
%%% { Mary Chapin Carpenter } %%%
Artist : Mary Chapin Carpenter
Album : The Essential
Title  : Stones In The Road
When we were young,
we pledged allegiance
every morning of our lives.
The classroom rang
with children's voices
under teacher's watchful eye.
We learned about
the world around us
at our desks and at dinner time.
Reminded of the starving children,
we cleaned our plates
with guilty minds.
And the stones in the road,
shown like diamonds in the dust.
And then a voice called to us
to make our way back home.
When I was ten,
my father held me
on his shoulders above the crowd.
To see a train
draped in mourning,
pass slowly through our town.
His widow kneeled
with all her children
at the sacred burial ground.
The TV glowed
that long hot summer
with all the cities burning down.
flew out beneath our bicycle tires.
Worlds removed from all those fires
as we raced each other home.
Now we drink our coffee
on the run.
We climb that ladder
rung by rung.
We are the daughters
and the sons
and here's the line
that's missing.
The starving children
have been replaced
by souls out on the street.
We give a dollar when we pass
and hope our eyes don't meet.
We pencil in,
we cancel out,
we crave the corner suite.
We kiss your ass,
we make you hold,
we doctor the receipt.
they fly out from
underneath our wheels.
Another tale and another tears,
before we can back home.
Stones in the road,
leave a mark
whence they came.
A thousand points
of light or shame,
baby,
I don't know !
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