Stones in the Road [*/#; Previously Unreleased Track]
Joan Baez, Mary Chapin Carpenter
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When we were young we pledged allegiance Every morning of our lives The classroom rang with children's voices Under teacher's watchful eye We learned about the world around us At our desks and at dinner time Reminded of the starving children We cleaned our plates with guilty minds And the stones in the road Shone like diamonds in the dust And then a voice called to us To make our way back home When I was ten my father held me On his shoulders above the crowd To see a train draped in mourning Pass slowly through our town His widow kneeled with all their children At the sacred burial ground And the TV glowed that long hot summer With all the cities burning down And the stones in the road Flew out beneath our bicycle tires Worlds removed from all those fires As we raced each other home And now we drink our coffee on the run We climb that ladder rung by rung We are the daughters and the sons And here's the line that's missing The starving children have been replaced By souls out on the street We give a dollar when we pass And hope our eyes don't meet We pencil in we cancel out We crave the corner suite We kiss your ass, we make you hold We doctor the receipt And the stones in the road They fly out from beneath our wheels Another day, another deal Before we get back home Stones in the road Leave a mark whence they came A thousands points of light or shame Baby, I don't know
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Written by: MARY CARPENTER, MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER
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