I Knew This Place [David Mallett Cover] lyrics

I knew this place, I knew it well

Every sound and every smell

And every time I walked I fell

For the first two years or so

There across the grassy yard

I'm a young boy running hard

Brown and bruised and battle-scarred

And lost in sweet illusion

And from my window I can see

The fingers of an ancient tree

Reaching out it calls to me

To climb its surly branches

But all my climbing days are gone

These tired legs I'm standing on

Scarcely dare to leave the spot

Upon which they are standing

And I remember every word

From every voice I ever heard

And every frog and every bird

Yes, this is where it starts

A brother's laugh, the sighing wind

This is where my life begins

This is where I learned

To use my hands and hear my heart

This house is old, it carries on

Like lyrics to an old time song

Always changed, but never gone

This house can stand the seasons

Our lives has gone from door to door

Dust across the wooden floor

Feather rain and thunder roar

We need not know the reason

And all my thoughts come back to me

Like ships across a friendly sea

Like breezes blowing endlessly

Like rivers running deep

The day is done, the lights are low

The wheels of life are turning slow

And as these visions turn and go

I lay me down to sleep

Well, I knew this place, I knew it well

Every sound and every smell

And every time I walked I fell

For the first two years or so

The day is done, the lights are low

The wheels of life are turning slow

And as these visions turn and go

I lay me down to sleep