Wild and Clear and Blue

Sunlight breaking through the blinds

Someone shouts, come on, it's time

Rushing out the door, buckle up

Diggin' around in the tapes on the passenger side

Push one in and press rewind

Windshield wipers keeping time

Ooh, when I was nine

Heard you singing 'bout the five and dime

"What's that?" I asked?

And my mama said

"They were everywhere when I was a kid"

I hear the fiddle and bow

Still playing long after the show

And your voice runs like the Brazos through me

Wild and clear and blue

Feet shufflin' cross the floor

Moonlighting at a record store

Thumbing through the bins to find a friend

I pick one out, and I put it on

Dancin' alone to my favorite song

Under the flicker of fluorescent lights

Ooh, when I was nine

Heard you singing 'bout paradise

"What's that?" I asked?

And my mama said

"That was everywhere when I was a kid"

I hear the fiddle and bow

Still playing long after the show

And your voice runs like the Brazos through me

Wild and clear and blue

Now I'm rolling down all my windows

While the wild birds cut lines across the sky

Your voices are swirling around me

Driving into the west Texas night

Breathing in the scent of the sagebrush

Tears cutting lines 'cross my face

Now, the static is slowly replacing

The sounds of my childhood days

We were singing 'bout paradise

"What's that?" I asked

And my mama said

"That was everywhere when I was a kid"

I hear the fiddle and bow

Still playing long after the show

And love runs like the Brazos through me

Wild and clear and blue

Wild and clear and blue

Wild and clear and blue