Walden Pond

I hope you spend your days
writing verses on your page.
May your life be a Walden Pond swim.
Taking showers in the cold
and your glasses filled to their brim.
And I hope you treat your heart
real nice and real smart.
May your life be a Walden Pond swim.
Can’t be worthless seein' stars,
buying rocky-road for me and him.
Stay in that water and
keep where you’re feeling fine but
I’m just the daughter of a man who lives on oak and wine and I
swim like my father
and remember hard days drivin' miles across county lines.
I hope you realize
why the clouds are always crying.
May your life be a Walden Pond dive.
Shaking flowers at the ground
while you live the life you did at five.
And I hope it’s testified
for you the best had been denied.
May your life be a Walden Pond swim.
May you find your love tonight
and the times you have are never grim.
Stay in that water and
keep where you’re feeling fine but
I’m just the daughter of a man who lives on oak and wine and I
swim like my father and remember hard days drivin' miles across county lines.
I’ve still got those pictures that I found in a bucket.
They’re all up on my wall.
And I’ve still got those paintings that you did for my birthday
way back in the fall.
And I’ve still got those pictures that i found in a bucket.
They’re all up on my wall.
And I’ve still got those paintings that you did for my birthday
way back in the fall.