Name: Winter Wheat
Duration: P00H03M53S
Description: Written and performed by John Bahler. This one makes the girl cry.

Winter Wheat

from He Fell from the Moon to the Earth by John Bahler

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Written and performed by John Bahler. This one makes the girl cry.

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With my back to the wind
Watching the waves of a wheat field a’blowing
It ain’t like the tide coming in
Ain’t like the view on the shores where you’re going
But love, I can’t change the way you see these fields

Sixteen hours a day
In the harvest that’s the price you pay
But there is freedom in a field
Tragic peace in the shadow of the yield
But love, I can’t change the way you see this life
Cause how could you be a simple famer’s wife?

If you follow any road
They’ll all lead out away from home
Take you to an ocean or a sea
Six or seven hundred miles away from me
But love, I can’t change the way you look at me

While there’s life in my blood
I’ll be here at the center of all roads
Sweating sixteen hours in a day
Gazing out across the amber waves of grain
Cause love, I can’t change the only way I know

I will be the lover of your youth
Give all of my heart to you in truth
Be a father, husband, and a friend
Faithful till this life comes to its earthly end
Or love I will be a specter in the field.

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from He Fell from the Moon to the Earth, released April 16, 2014

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