TRACK FOUR
SONGWRITER/ARTIST
TIM O'BRIEN
RESTLESS SPIRIT WANDERING
THE LYRICS
Restless spirit, wandering,
come on home again
Tell me about your days of old,
wander back again
You won't admit your life is taken,
to your death not yet awakened
Restless spirit wandering,
come on home again
Oglethorpe was around this place
some hundred fifty years
Since a Union bullet hit its mark,
and his teenaged heart it pierced
Years ago a young girl lived here,
she became his friend
But when their family moved away
their friendship had to end
And when we bought this house
the neighbors came and talked about him
Though we've not heard or seen a thing,
I hope he comes again
I'd like to ask him lots of things,
and hear the way he talks
Describing local battle scenes
on some slow morning walk
Restless spirit, wandering,
come on home again
Tell me about your days of old,
wander back again
Don't admit your life is taken,
to your death not yet awaken
Restless spirit wandering,
and come on home again
The room I write in used to be a two car garage
A nineteen fifties chrome and fin
and white wall tired montage
Years later it became a church,
and they moved an organ in
And these walls would shake with holy songs and sermons against sin
I like to think this place was made for
the kind of work I do
I'll try to be ready when
the spirit comes back through
I'll write it down and sort it out and
make it fairly rhyme
And marry it to the melody of highest flyin' kind
I want to try be to a friend to souls
that cannot rest
I would not blame their anger,
don't claim to know what's best
But souls are all connected
like the branches on a tree
And things they see beyond the grave
might help out you and me
Restless spirit, wandering,
come on home again
Tell me about your days of old,
wander back again
Tell me as you come and go,
things that people need to know
Restless Spirit, wandering,
come on home again
Don't admit your life is taken,
to your death not yet awaken
Restless spirit wandering,
come on home again