[vocal improvisation recommended]
Hhhhmmmmm
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
Ooohhhh
I have learned to be still
I have learned to be still
Like a fence post on a hill
Don’t need to run nowhere
There’s a center everywhere
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
In the dust, in the grain
In the shadow, in the rain
I can widen what I see
Let it all come into me
Let it all come into me
[harmonies]
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
Set out walking once again
Same old dirt beneath my boots
Leaves that fall and leaves that cling
Every little hidden thing
Every little hidden thing
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
Something flinches when I look
Like I opened up a book
Is it them or is it me
Waking what I came to see
Waking what I came to see
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
I ain’t chasin’ what won’t stay
Let it come and drift away
Every small thing holds the truth
If you let it pull you through
Memory tries to hold its place
But it slips through time and space
Not like trees with rings that stay
Marked in years that don’t just fade
years that don’t just fade
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
While we’re livin’, it won’t last
We can’t hold onto the past
Then we’re held a little while
By a name… a trace… a mile
Then it’s gone
Ohhhhhh Then it’s gone
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
brings me back again
Said I wouldn’t walk this road
But that’s what kept me goin’
Friend of mine said “see it through”
I believed it when he told me to
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
brings me back again
Take a thing down to its end
That’s the work I’m given
Not to keep, but understand
What it means to be livin’
means to be livin’
I ain’t chasin’ what won’t stay
Let it come and drift away
Every small thing holds the truth
If you let it pull you through
Ohhhhhhhhh
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
From a speck out on the ground
I can turn the whole thing ‘round
Every road I thought would end
Bends and brings me back again
[Outro – soft guitar + harmonica fade]
I have learned to be still
I have learned I will
Take it to the end again
