Emmylou Harris Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics

Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics

I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the
war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a
scar

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had
no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your
wheels
How did it feel

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To
dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of
things holy
Above and below me world without end

I meant to ask you
how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they
tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any
cost

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing
but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the
likes of me

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be
returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things
holy
Above and below me world without end

Gone now is the day and
gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of
my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung

I meant
to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the
well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell

Bang
the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we
begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me
world without end