"Horses" lyrics
All my flannels made in Bangladesh
All my t-shirts in Vietnam
There are places that we quietly ignore
There are places that we go and bomb
You know I thought an awful lot about Jesus
Even more about Lao Tzu
They say that the way of the Tao is to do nothing
Then what the hell am I supposed to do?
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter you grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
There's a book I read I don't remember
There's a place I've been I'd never seen
There's a note that I wrote that went up in smoke
There's some songs I don't ever sing
You know the stars in the sky are burning
Mostly burning unbeknownst to me
I wish I would've payed more attention
To the bigger things I didn't see
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter your grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
I got some bricks so thick that they don't make sense
In the walls up in my mind
But life is pretty short and the road's got forks
So I take them down while I got time
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter your grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
All my t-shirts in Vietnam
There are places that we quietly ignore
There are places that we go and bomb
You know I thought an awful lot about Jesus
Even more about Lao Tzu
They say that the way of the Tao is to do nothing
Then what the hell am I supposed to do?
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter you grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
There's a book I read I don't remember
There's a place I've been I'd never seen
There's a note that I wrote that went up in smoke
There's some songs I don't ever sing
You know the stars in the sky are burning
Mostly burning unbeknownst to me
I wish I would've payed more attention
To the bigger things I didn't see
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter your grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
I got some bricks so thick that they don't make sense
In the walls up in my mind
But life is pretty short and the road's got forks
So I take them down while I got time
You know the harder you think, the deeper you sink
The tighter your grip, the further you slip
So I'm singing this song about loving
All the people that you've come to hate
It's true what they say, I'm gonna die someday
Why am I holding on to all this weight?
You know I really thought that there'd be power
In thinking half of y'all was just born fools
Thought I was gathering oats for my horses
I was getting by whipping my mules
Writer(s): Jesse Allen Wells
