M. Lockwood Porter - I'd Like to Take You with Me When I Go

It's a time for sights and visions
It's a time to make decisions
It's a time to watch the old skin blow away
When you hear that whistle blowing
When you see that river flowing
You gotta jump up and leave your troubles for the day

You don't have to worry, though surrounded by this strife
Find a plot to tend to, and let the tending be your life
Keep learning til there's nothing left to know
I'd like to take you with me when I go

Jesus loves the sinner
Doesn't care if you're a winner
The famous now will later be the fraud
Well, there's a time for reaping
And there's a time for weeping
And there's a time for giving thanks to God

You can curse the years you wasted. Yes, time can seem so cruel
But you have to earn your wisdom from the time you spent a fool
When I finally hear that mighty trumpet blow
I'd like to take you with me when I go

He was sixteen on a summer night, just tearing down the street
Now he's shouting in the hospital and pissing in his sheets
First you feel her skin upon yours and the moon is hanging down
Then you come home for the funeral as a stranger in your own town

Well, I know the path is narrow
That his eye is on the sparrow
And that everything comes back to him in time
I see the ripples in the water
I see the handwork of the potter
In the twisted path that brought your hand to mine

I spent years on all those battles. Now they don't matter much to me.
When your fragile self just shatters, then you're half the way to free
Said He saw Granddad though he died some years ago
I'd like to take you with me when I go

Written by:
Max Lockwood Porter

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