Dry Riverbed

Verse 1

We parked the old truck by the dry riverbed

Where the summer used to glow

Carl said the whole town was changing

But I swore I'd always know

The lights on Main Street flickered out

One by one they fell

Chorus

Sing me the song we all forgot

The one our fathers knew

We traded gold for quiet rooms

And gray where green once grew

Oh the years they never wait around

For hearts that hold on through

Verse 2

I found my letter in the attic

With a stamp from ninety-four

I read her words past the water stains

Till I couldn't read no more

The radio hummed some hollow tune

I wasn't looking for

Pre-Chorus

But the grain still bends

Where the wind has been

And the road still points

To where I've been

Chorus

Sing me the song we all forgot

The one our fathers knew

We traded gold for quiet rooms

And gray where green once grew

Oh the years they never wait around

For hearts that hold on through

Bridge

Take the long way home

Past the fields we knew

Maybe what we lost

Is waiting to come through

Chorus

Sing me the song we all forgot

The one our fathers knew

We traded gold for quiet rooms

And gray where green once grew

Oh the years they never wait around

For hearts that hold on through