You don’t know just what I know And where I’m going, you can’t go I know that you’re here to help and that you mean well But you don’t know just where I’ve been And you don’t know my kind of sin I’m passing through, knee deep in my own hell Hold on to the rod and staff Walk along the narrow path That’s all you can ever do as far as I can tell The valley’s dark in the shadow of death I close my eyes and hold my breath Passing through, knee deep in my own hell I’ll go through hell and out the other side They said it’s forever but they lied I’d get you back up on your feet if you ever fell But I don’t know just what you know And where you’re going, I can’t go Passing through, knee deep in your own hell You don’t know just what I know And where I’m going, you can’t go I know that you’re here to help and that you mean well But you don’t know just where I’ve been And you don’t know my kind of sin I’m passing through, knee deep in my own hell

Nothing here but hard ground Dry and dead and hard and brown Great granddad’s farm, I’m told But all I ever grew was old I listen to the phone not ringing I watch no one coming ‘round And hold on another day, clinging To this field of hard ground All my life I’d work and plant Every day from can to can’t I used to think you reap what you sow But that was long ago I listen to the phone not ringing I watch no one coming ‘round And hold on another day, clinging To this field of hard ground The shadows stretch and crawl Across the floor and down the hall Sometimes I want it all to end I wish to God I had a friend I listen to the phone not ringing I watch no one coming ‘round And hold on another day, clinging To this field of hard ground Nothing here but hard ground

I left my home and I left my mother Now a boy, now a man I went to fight with my little brother For the love of this land We marched for miles and we marched for years Dirt and blood everywhere I left my youth and I left my tears On my brother’s body there I went back home to my mother Aged now, sitting in her room I could not bear to tell her about my brother So I said he’s coming soon Now every day she stares out the window Waiting for him to appear And she asks “Do you think today he’ll show?” And I say “Yes mother dear.”

Everybody wants to get the upper hand And I don’t expect you to know But when you grow up, you’ll understand Son, you just got to let that go I know you feel for what ain’t right And you think the answer is to fight You say you long to be big and strong like me ‘Cause you think that’s what it means to be a man But Sonny, take a breath, stop and ask yourself Are you big enough to take the lower hand The upper hand, it pulls the strings But one day you’ll love someone and know Power and might don’t mean a thing The heart only gets what it lets go You don’t have to try to win You don’t lose when you give in You say you long to be big and strong like me ‘Cause you think that’s what it means to be a man But Sonny, take a breath, stop and ask yourself Are you big enough to take the lower hand I wish for you success And by that I mean happiness You say you long to be big and strong like me ‘Cause you think that’s what it means to be a man Honey, take a breath, stop and ask yourself Are you big enough to take the lower hand

An angel came to me, so I thought it’d all be fine But there’s no room at the Inn, and the kid ain’t even mine And we had to walk all this way to Bethlehem And to tell you the truth, I have my doubts now and then But I listen for his voice And I don’t complain I trust in the Lord and praise his name And I follow his guiding light And love him with all my might An angel came to me, said go down Egypt way So I packed up my little family and left right away My poor wife walked all the way without a tear Now we’re hundreds of miles from home, we don’t know nobody here But I listen for his voice And I don’t complain I trust in the Lord and praise his name And I follow his guiding light And love him with all my might An angel came to me, said go back to your homeland So I packed up the family and I prayed she’d understand As I watched my wife, again, walk all those miles Something told me it wouldn’t be the hardest of her trials But she listens for his voice And she don’t complain She trusts the Lord and I hear her praising his name As I follow his guiding light And love him with all my might An angel came to me, this time to call me home I kissed my wife and reminded her she’s not alone ‘Cause right here is the King of Kings He’s the Light of the World, of whom the angels sing So listen for his voice And don’t complain Trust the Lord and praise his holy name And follow his guiding light And love him with all your might

With the phone off the hook The dishes would wait With no money to go out We’d dance til late, remember You in your slippers We were quite a sight But in our little apartment Everything was alright How could it be that it took us this long To see that back then we were already where we belong, so Dance with me Maddy And say you won’t go Your mind is made up but not quite Put aside what’s been said I don’t want to fight Just dance with me Maddy, tonight So let’s push back the couch And roll up the rug And remember a time When that was enough Before the world Put our lives in a rush And we got all we wanted But somehow lost us I would take it all back if I could But I know one thing that’ll do us both good, if you’ll CHORUS I love you so dearly, I should’ve told you every day Please let’s start over — I know a way, if you’ll CHORUS Dance with me Maddy And I’ll never let you go I’ll hold on with all of my might You’re all that I need And it’ll all be alright If you’ll dance with me Maddy, tonight