The Field Be Quiet

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Cold water fills my collar

The mud is soft and kind

I cannot feel my fingers

Or the rifle left behind me

Somewhere far the guns are quiet

A sky without a single star

I am small against this country

I am smaller than I thought

Pre-Chorus

And I think of you

Only you

Chorus

Mama I am tired

Mama I am cold

I don't want to fight it

I don't want to hold

Mama I am listening

For a voice I know

Tell me it's alright to

Tell me I can go

Post-Chorus

(Go) Go

(Go) Go

Verse 2

I can hear you in the weather

In the rain against the wire

You are humming something older

Than the war that brought me here

You are standing in the kitchen

With your hands inside the dough

And you feel a sudden shiver

Like a door left open wide

Pre-Chorus

And you know

You just know

Chorus

Mama I am tired

Mama I am cold

I don't want to fight it

I don't want to hold

Mama I am listening

For a voice I know

Tell me it's alright to

Tell me I can go

Post-Chorus

(Go) Go

(Go) Go

Bridge

Let the field be quiet

Let the river take me slow

You raised me in the sunlight

Let me rest here in the snow

Chorus

Mama I am tired

Mama I am cold

I don't want to fight it

I don't want to hold

Mama I am listening

For a voice I know

Tell me it's alright to

Tell me I can go

Outro

(Go) Go

(Go) Go