Sometimes When I Dream

The sun through the window Bare trees and a southern sky Birds in the air Gliding way up high They see the trouble I am going to send your way, oh yeah Those birds In that Southern sky Sometimes when I drink The ghosts they come around We tend to play catch up And pick through the lost and found There's a tent in the woods With a bike and a chair I walk past every day But I never see anyone there I'm a walking with a limp Still doing what I can I hope you know that I'm trying Well I have these words And yards of faded glory I hope I hope I hope you understand I secede myself tonight Not much time to get back home Silly silly me lost in rhapsody One fine, One fine, skinned knee, skinned knee memory I see my father in the garden and its nineteen sixty five He's wearing his khaki pants A drink in his hand he's shirtless Practicing his farewell dance I'm in the grass and I’m watching Two fingers measuring his drink And he says son, he says son I need just two more inches Say hello to Joe Well he's taking out the trash We share a bit of land And a little wooden fence I hear his troubles as they spill out of his house We do our best to be good neighbors I secede myself tonight