Michael Tomlinson Take The Breath
Out on the road there are memories in me Each of them of their own place And all the changes we all learn to live with They turn me around every day What's my direction, where am I going? Sometimes I lose where I've been And I'm spinning and whirling And I don't understand Chorus: Then there are times when I realize All the fog comes clear Like a melody through a raging storm That was deafening All around us calm There's a light that's there to see I drove the night all alone in the desert Dreaming about my old friends And I wrote poem on that hill in Wyoming And shouted it out in the wind The wind and prairie Were beckoning to me Calling me out off that road I'm a vessel that's sailing Under no one's control Chorus As long as I live I need to run this way Now it's all right to give These useless fears away Oh breathe it in now Just let it out Don't be afraid to take that breath I love the country And some of the cities I love these people I meet Who come out to show me They hear what I'm saying And hold out a free hand to me If we're going to listen, learn to envision Things as we know they can be Though we're spinning and whirling There's a way we all see That now it's times to realize Make the fog come clear Like a melody through a raging storm That was deafening All around us calm There's a light that's there to see Don't be afraid to take that breath
