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A Father’s First Spring

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A Father’s First Spring Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The sweetest surrender of winter
She put up her flag, it is waving
The thunder of summer is rumbling in


[Chorus 1]
I haven't seen you in days
And my, how that feeling has changed

Oh, I have been home sick for you since we met
I have been homesick for you

[Verse 2]
Now I've got to take to the sky
And I'll tell you what that means for you and I
If I die, it's for you

[Chorus 2]
I never lived until I lived in your light
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight

Of you baby blue, God blessed your life
I do not live unless I live in your light

[Verse 3]
The realest thing I ever felt
Was the blood on the floor

And the love in your yell
I was a child before the day I met Eleanor
[Bridge]
The kiss of the wind in the hills
The clearness of morning, the late evening thrill
Blurry and gray like the roar
The wheels on the highway, above them I soar

[Verse 4]
When I'm in the sweet daughter's eyes
My heart is now ruined for the rest of all time
There's no part of it left to give


[Chorus 2]

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September 11, 2012
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