~HANDS BUILT FOR HOLDIN'~ (DK VERSION)
Sunday morning, thrift store jacket
Old broke-down Chevy in the rain
Used to chase the white lines westbound
Now I barely leave my lane
Got a box of faded pictures
And a radio that hums
Every song about forever
Feels like it’s for everyone but us
I was hardheaded in my younger years
Too proud to let folks in
Life’ll make a man grow colder
When he keeps losin’ more than winnin
Worked them overnight highways
Til the company cut me loose
Now I’m sittin’ with these quiet walls
And too much time to tell the truth
But deep down under all these scars
There’s still a light burnin’ soft in the dark
I got hands built for holdin
Arms meant for somebody close
A heart that still believes in forever
Even if it don’t know how no more
I been driftin’ like smoke in the wind
Tryin’ to find where I belong
But maybe every broken road I took
Was just leadin’ me along
To a better day
To a sweeter song
There was one girl back in ‘99
Lord, she almost changed my name
And another one some years later
But timing lit the fuse to that flame
Since then it’s mostly silence
And sleepin’ with the TV on
But lately I’ve been crackin’ windows
Tryin’ to let some sunlight in this home
Yeah, change still scares me sometimes
But lonely scares me more tonight
I got hands built for holdin’
Arms meant for somebody close
A heart that still believes in forever
Even if it don’t know how no more
I spent years just surviving
Now I wanna feel alive
Maybe love ain’t somethin’ you lose
Maybe it just waits inside
For the right time
For the right eyes
Mama used to tell me
“Son, don’t let the hard world steal your grace
And somehow after all this hurt
I still got kindness on my face
So maybe that means heaven
Ain’t through with me yet
Maybe there’s still some beauty
I just ain’t stumbled on yet
I got a whole sky full of hope now
Even after all these storms
And somewhere there’s a woman
Who’ll love these weathered arms
She won’t care where I’ve been
Or all the nights I barely made it through
She’ll just hear this old soul singin
And know every word is true
Yeah, I’m still standin
Still got some love left too
And tonight for the first time in a while
The future don’t feel so far away
No… it don’t feel so far away