Stones In The Road-Music Heaven

[ti:Stones In The Road] [ar:Music Heaven] [al:Music Heaven Vol.11] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stones In The Road - Music Heaven [00:30.29]When we were young we pledged allegiance [00:32.92] [00:34.16]Every morning of our lives [00:37.02] [00:37.62]The classroom rang with children's voices [00:40.79] [00:41.38]Under teacher's watchful eye [00:43.98] [00:44.87]We learned about the world around us [00:48.25] [00:48.84]At our desks and at dinnertime [00:51.13] [00:52.32]Reminded of the starving children [00:55.51] [00:56.02]We cleaned our plates with guilty minds [00:58.51] [00:59.98]And the stones in the road [01:02.15] [01:02.91]Shone like diamonds in the dust [01:05.93] [01:07.05]And then a voice called to us [01:09.57] [01:10.22]To make our way back home [01:13.15] [01:14.53]When I was ten my father held me [01:17.56] [01:18.24]On his shoulders above the crowd [01:21.02] [01:21.75]To see a train draped in mourning [01:24.52] [01:25.75]Pass slowly through our town [01:28.19] [01:29.16]His widow kneeled with all their children [01:32.20] [01:33.05]At the sacred burial ground [01:35.60] [01:36.26]And the TV glowed that long hot summer [01:39.59] [01:40.39]With all the cities burning down [01:42.99] [01:44.41]And the stones in the road [01:46.47] [01:47.37]Flew out beneath our bicycle tires [01:51.44]Worlds removed from all those fires [01:54.75]As we raced each other home [01:57.67] [02:27.04]And now we drink our coffee on the run [02:30.21] [02:30.92]We climb that ladder rung by rung [02:34.55]We are the daughters and the sons [02:37.53] [02:38.35]And here's the line that's missing [02:40.87] [02:44.31]The starving children have been replaced [02:46.96] [02:47.91]By souls out on the street [02:50.23] [02:51.23]We give a dollar when we pass [02:54.38] [02:55.16]And hope our eyes don't meet [02:57.48] [02:59.05]We pencil in we cancel out [03:02.32]We crave the corner suite [03:04.81] [03:05.95]We kiss your a** we make you hold [03:08.92] [03:09.57]We doctor the receipt [03:11.48] [03:14.14]And the stones in the road [03:16.19] [03:16.89]They fly out from beneath our wheels [03:20.56] [03:21.08]Another day another deal [03:23.51] [03:24.27]Before we get back home [03:27.02] [03:28.41]Stones in the road [03:30.59] [03:31.74]Leave a mark from whence they came [03:34.70] [03:35.69]A thousand points of light or shame [03:39.63]Baby I don't know