The Once And Future Carpenter - The Avett Brothers

I ain't from Texas

But I made my way from Dallas

And I know the lonesome sound is following

And I ain't a gambler

But I can recognize a hand

And when to hold

When queens are staring back at me

Once I was a carpenter

And man my hands were calloused

I could swing a metal mallet sure and straight

But I took to the highway

A poet young and hungry

And I left the timbers where they lay

Forever I will move like the world

That turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction

I'll look up to the sky

And when the black cloak drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender and remember

Well we're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given

I won't be scared to die

And I don't come from Detroit

But her diesel motors pull me

And I followed till I finally lost my way

And now I spend my days in search of a woman

I called purpose

And if I ever pass back through her town

I'll stay

Forever I will move like the world

That turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction

I'll look up to the sky

And when the black dress drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender and remember

Well we're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given

I won't be scared to die

And my life is but a coin

It'spulled from an empty pocket

Dropped into a slot

With dreams of sevens close behind

And these hopes and these fears go with it

And moon and the sun go spinning

Like the numbers and fruits before our eyes

Sometimes I hit sometimes it robs me blind

Sometimes I hit sometimes it robs me blind

Forever I will move like the world

That turns beneath me

And when I lose my direction

I'll look up to the sky

And when the black cloak drags upon the ground

I'll be ready to surrender and remember

Well we're all in this together

If I live the life I'm given

I won't be scared to die