Indigo Girls Little Perennials Lyrics

Little Perennials Lyrics

Back in the long stretch of loneliness 

I have come to call a living, 

I'm getting something for all this love's labor, 

even when I am
forgetting. 



Oh we oh oh little perennials 

where'd you come
from? 



Daughter of my father's second cousin, 

loyalties, I
got em by the dozen. 

We share a past, we share a blood relation 

and that's as good as an invitation. 



Oh we oh oh little
perennials 

where'd you come from? 



I'm in the North
Carolina Mountains, 

just to the west of where I met my calling. 

If you look south to the foothills of these mountains rising, 

that's
the place where it feels good falling. 

That's the place that I know.




I look for words to fill the empty spaces, 

all the life
revealed in these back stages. 

I reach for names like little puzzle
pieces; 

oh perennial, come to me. 



Oh we oh oh little
perennials 

where'd you come from?