The Lines and the Tide-Anna Tivel

[ti:The Lines and the Tide] [ar:Anna Tivel] [al:Heroes Waking Up] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Lines and the Tide - Anna Tivel [00:00.74]An old box of tools and a bible [00:04.43] [00:06.67]A coffee can half full of dreams [00:10.30] [00:11.99]The scar of a name carved so careful [00:16.14]In the side of an evergreen [00:18.54] [00:23.18]The sweet smell of diesel and lumber [00:26.60] [00:28.85]And leather gloves worn by the wind [00:32.59] [00:34.23]My hero of hoping and hunger [00:37.67]My one real man [00:39.91] [00:45.28]Blue eyed and out on the water [00:48.63] [00:50.49]Just watching the lines and the tide [00:54.04] [00:55.85]But bring him home safe he's my father [00:59.87]Don't go closing his blue eyes [01:02.83] [01:07.02]A nickel for what you been thinking [01:10.74] [01:12.69]A dollar is more than I own [01:16.21] [01:17.92]A decade is too long [01:20.74]To search for that highway back home [01:24.77] [01:28.92]So maybe I'll move to [01:31.73]A new town and start up a life on the edge [01:38.31] [01:39.97]But then again maybe I'll sit down [01:44.16]And count how I'm blessed [01:47.05] [01:51.46]Blue eyed and out on the water [01:55.02] [01:56.54]Just watching the lines and the tide [02:00.37] [02:02.20]But bring him home safe he's my father [02:05.97]Don't go closing his blue eyes [02:09.09] [02:13.40]And the river is mighty at midnight [02:16.88] [02:18.71]The canyon just layers of time [02:22.72] [02:24.22]You're brighter to me than the moonlight [02:28.71]Wider than the night sky [02:31.30] [02:47.01]I think of you when I'm out walking [02:50.27] [02:52.46]Or under the hood of my car [02:55.40] [02:57.56]The steady belief buried deep in the gold of your heart [03:04.00] [03:08.88]And someday I'll want for the answers [03:13.49] [03:14.59]To questions that I never posed [03:18.17] [03:20.07]Someday I'll hold my own daughter [03:23.84]The way you held yours [03:26.79] [03:30.68]Blue eyed and out on the water [03:34.40] [03:36.36]Just watching the lines and the tide [03:39.81] [03:41.69]But bring him home safe he's my father [03:45.33]Don't go closing his blue eyes