Robbie Fulks - A Miracle lyrics

[Verse 1] Before we get from Tennessee Things held a move as majestically as planned But I was born with a descent hand And I played the cards well Now over the Hudson westward we were shocked The city turns out to be smaller than a fantasy It's these lost little towns that make the heart swell [Pre-Chorus] To come up southern is a troubled way Pay no mind to what the writer say It's a telling And that makes it lyrical [Chorus] The kids swear to God there's gonna be a change But two people in places never really change In the ancient time they called that a miracle [Verse 2] The ground slick up the slag and playing the Jersey fields Gave way to the softwooded trees The pines poppers and the hickorines Old friends of my childhood They're in the care of the brothers of the holy cross To our hero of ten years old a terrible thought takes hold That the land that is free is steeped in wild blood And father father first of my earthly loves know that nothing is lost The younger I was The fire flies around the lamps as the day softly pales In this hour we're alive Get down the details And who would describe that summer of '15 would have to dream the only way is to dream And what of the dreams of the wreatched Broken and on their knees So help me God I'm one of these [Pre-Chorus] The road from the south is a hard way Pay no mind to what the writer say It's a telling It makes it lyrical [Chorus] Nothing to lose they say about your changes But suffering people don't just come unchanged In the ancient times that was called a mircale