James Taylor Enough To Be On Your Way Lyrics

Enough To Be On Your Way Lyrics

Notes: 

JT on Sony.com: My brother Alex died in `93 on (not for) my birthday. We all
went down to Florida to say goodbye. The day after we flew home (the day after
his cremation) a giant mother hurricane followed us north through the
Carolina`s; trashing everything in its path and finally raining record rains on
Martha`s Vineyard (home). 
In Paris, a year later I changed his character to a hippie chick named Alice
and the location to Santa Fe; but my soulful older brother is still all over
this song like a cheap suit. 

Almost f**k-free. 

The sun shines on this funeral
The same as on a birth
The way it shines on everything 
That happens here on Earth 
It rolls across the western sky 
And back into the sea
And spends the day¹s last rays 
Upon this f**ked-up family 
So long old pal

The last time I saw Alice
She was leaving Santa Fe
With a bunch of round-eyed Buddhists 
In a killer Chevrolet
Said they turned her out of Texas 
Yeah she burned `em down back home
Now she`s wild with expectation 
On the edge of the unknown

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Oh it`s enough to be on your way 
It`s enough just to cover ground 
It`s enough to be moving on 
Home, build it behind your eyes 
Carry it in your heart
Safe among your own

They brought her back on a Friday night
Same day I was born
We sent her up the smoke stack
And back into the storm
She blew up over the San Juan mountains
And spent herself at last
The threat of heavy weather
That was what she knew the best

CHORUS

It woke me up on a Sunday
An hour before the sun
It had me watching the headlights 
Out on highway 591
`Til I stepped into my trousers 
`Til I pulled my big boots on 
I walked out on the Mesa 
And I stumbled on this song

CHORUS