DRIVE

I drive around these dusty roads

Finding pieces of you in the sky

The road behind me disappears 

In the last days of July

The summer sun is fading

The mourning doves are sighing

The songbirds, they are moving on

To take flight in another sky

I can see the southern oaks

Stretched out before the sun

The amber sun is disappearing

Underneath the ocean 

Driving on these lonely roads

You speak to me in signs

Taking flight from the surface of earth

Like a dark-winged butterfly

I see you in the future

In the light of the fireflies 

I'd drive through August and everything after

To see you again in the sky

My days here are not over

On earth, I'm still doing my time

One day I'll get my golden wings

And be next to you flying 

The nights are getting colder 

September has come to an end

Headlights cast over the rolling desert

Time crumbles back into sand

The roots of the plants here are shallow

When the wind comes, I watch them take flight

History connects them to the earth

But destiny ties them to the sky

I'll wait for my wings and be patient 

Rooted for now here on earth

I know my way through the darkness now 

You've shown me the places to search

I grow my roots to stay shallow

Never quite tied to one place

The horizon approaches, the road disappears 

I live in an in-between state

Like two points of light in the darkness 

Your sky connecting with mine

Taking flight from the surface of earth

Like a dark-winged butterfly.