"Old Pine" lyrics

"Old Pine"

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shone beat down on bony backs
So far from home where the ocean stood
Down dust and pine cone tracks

We slept like dogs down by the fire side
Awoke to the fog all around us
The boom of summer time

[Chorus]
We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
As the old pine fell we sang
Just to bless the morning.

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know the friends around you
Are all you'll always have
Smoke in my lungs, or the echoed stone
Careless and young, free as the birds that fly
With weightless souls now.

[Chorus x2]
We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
We stood
Steady as the stars in the woods
So happy-hearted
And the warmth rang true inside these bones
As the old pine fell we sang
Just to bless the morning.

We grow, grow, steady as the morning
We grow, grow, older still
We grow, grow, happy as a new dawn
We grow, grow, older still
We grow, grow, steady as the flowers
We grow, grow, older still
We grow, grow, happy as a new dawn
We grow, grow, older still


Writer(s): Benjamin John Howard
album: "Every Kingdom" (2011)
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom album cover
7 Bottles
(iTunes Bonus Track)
These Waters
(Deluxe Edition Track)
Empty Corridors
(Deluxe Edition Track)
Under The Same Sun
(Deluxe Edition Track)
Bones
(Deluxe Edition Track)
I Will Be Blessed
(Deluxe Edition Track)
Move Like You Want
(Deluxe Edition Track)
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