Like The Wheel

Oh I wish I was the sparrow in your kid's eye

Like a fly above is summer all day long

On an island in the heart he has to carry

Past the many you have let into your song



And I said oh my Lord why am I not strong

Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on

Like the wheel that will take you home



And in the forest someone's whispering to a tree now

This is all I am so please don't follow me

And it's your brother in the shaft that I'm swinging

Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free



He said oh my Lord why am I not strong

Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on

Like the wheel that will take you home



And on this Sunday someone's sitting down to wonder

Where the hell among these mountains will I be?

There's a cloud behind the clouds to which I'm yelling

I could hear you sneak around so easily



And I said oh my Lord why am I not strong

Like the branch that keeps hangman hanging on

Like the branch that will take me home