Blind Man's Road

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Yeah

Verse 1

Knock on the door at midnight

Three taps soft like a whisper through the wood grain

Anna don't you recognize the voice that calls your name?

Said I'm battered from the road and wounded from the battle

Ain't ate in three days, my boots are caked in cattle

Mud from the lowlands, blood from the badlands

She said "You came here wrong so you best go back then"

I said "Anna I can't see, the moon is just a shadow"

She said "Blind man keep on walking down that narrow meadow"

Chorus

She don't open up, she don't let me in

Locked door between where I've been and where I've been

Begging at the threshold like a dog in the storm

Anna let me in before the night gets warm

She don't open up, she don't let me in

Locked door between where I've been and where I've been

Verse 2

Knock again louder, palm flat to the oak

"Anna I can't find the road, I'm blind and broke"

She said "Mother's sleeping, go before she wakes

Here's some bread and wine for heaven's sakes"

I said "Keep your charity, I don't want your bread

I just want you walking where my feet are led"

She said "Take the spindle, carry the linen thread

Lead the blind man onward, get him out my head"

Pre-Chorus

She walked beside him through the thistle and the stone

Every step she took she felt she wasn't alone

He said "Just a little further, just a little ways"

Anna started counting all the threads of her days

Chorus

She don't open up, she don't let me in

Locked door between where I've been and where I've been

Begging at the threshold like a dog in the storm

Anna let me in before the night gets warm

She don't open up, she don't let me in

Locked door between where I've been and where I've been

Bridge

Spindle hit the ground, thread unfurled

Anna stopped and faced the whole wide world

"Cavalry is coming, I can see the dust"

He said "I've been waiting for them, in God I trust"

Horses passed so quiet, not a single sound

Then the blind man stopped and turned around

Drop

Turned around

Turned around

And the blind man stopped and turned around

Verse 3

He mounted her up like she was made of air

Anna on the saddle, running fingers through her hair

She looked down at the road and she saw it clear

The blind man was the one who led her out of here

"Anna I can see you, I could see you all along

Had to make you walk until you proved me wrong"

Now she's riding through the valley with a stranger's hands

And the house she left is just a dot upon the lands

Chorus

She don't open up, but she's gone now

Left the door swinging, she don't know how

Begged at the threshold, now she's riding the storm

Anna found her road, and the night is warm

She don't open up, she just rides away

Blind man showed her more than words could say

Outro

Mm

Abre a porta, Anna

Mm-hmm

Abre de mansinho