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My fatherâs body lies beneath the snow
High on a hill in Holmes County, Ohio
From there you can look out across the fields
A farmer guides his horses home as day to darkness bends
And finally yields
Dadâs gravestone holds the words Be Still My Soul
A song we sang together long ago
And there were times we even shared one hymnbook
His right hand and my left hand side-by-side holding pages
Of music
But now his hands hold nothing but the earth
Hands that held me moments after my birth
And so we must all finally surrender
As we release our grip upon whatever we hold dear
And call familiar
My fatherâs body lies beneath the snow
And Iâm still learning how to let him go
Iâve come to know him better since heâs gone
And often wondered if or how I couldâve been a different
Better son
My fatherâs body lies beneath the snow
Sometimes on Christmas Eve thatâs where I go
I hear faint Christmas bells from far away
Ring out all the unspoken words Iâve never found within myself
To say
- Album:
- Live From The Edge Of The World
- Blood Oranges in the Snow
- Meet Me At The Edge Of The World
- Miscellaneous
- Eve
- Patience
- Till We Have Faces
- The Long Surrender
- Five Good Reasons to Meet Me
- 2013-11-19: Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA,...
- 2012-11-07: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA
- Sacred Ground
- Forecastle Festival Mixtape 2015
- Sacred Ground - Single
- HGTV + NoiseTrade Ultimate Holiday Soundtrack
- The Darkest Night of the Year
- The Trumpet Child
- Snow Angels (Bonus Track Version)
- The Long Surrender (Bonus Track Version)
- Changes Come (Live)