Red Light Nickel - Kelly Joe Phelps

Trails the no home leave behind them

«God bless you» signs on a street corner lamp post

Maybe a vet of his own alley way

An «Ain't drunk yet wanna be» swallow song

Ain’t drunk yet wanna be

Bits of rubber hanging by a needle

Thread between childhood and where this is now

How does one wither or whittle down a tree

For blossoms that try to bear right circumstance

Blossoms that try to bear

So, it’s good out there?

Better than some…

Folks keep trying to bring back the summer

That returned an unreturnable smile

Shoe string in a nether wind

Fish bite on a silver hook

Soft step in the stairwell that sounds like dad

Hungry, it is, tired and old

30 or 80 years, ticket the same

The game stay’s the right of the passing in time

Surrogate rhyme lingers tip o' the tongue

Surrogate rhyme lingers

So, it’s good out there?

Better than some…

Folks keep trying to bring back that summer

That returned an unreturnable smile

Shoe string in a nether wind

Fish bite on a silver hook

Soft step in the stairwell that sounds like dad

When I was young, my dreams flew in colors

Even did as the sore ocean rumbled

Now my feet wander the length of new countries

Red light holding my vision to come

And a green light holding my vision

And it sounds like dad

It sounds like dad

And it sounds like dad