Kerrville Folk Festival, 1996 (Jay is going to be fine! All is well!)
Below are drawings of the Nields through the ages, by members of the band other than Katryna. Guess who drew which?
And here are the lyrics to the new song we will be singing at the Iron Horse on Saturday night.
You Come Around Again
When exactly was the day that you forgot to play
Wasn’t there a point of no return?
One day you were running up the hill to beat the sun
Running with your friends until your lungs burned
Now your hill is made of paper, dishes and the laundry
And getting folks to know that they are good
Your kids say, Mom, would you throw the ball?
Catch me if you can, you know you could
You know you could.
You come around again
You come around again
You come around again.
If there’s anything at all I’ve learned in these twenty years
You’d do well to learn the minuet with fate
No one mourns that clever thing you didn’t say in time
No one ever died because you slept late
“Oh, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”
“The two of us are on our way back home.”
We had a dream, we took the crayon
Drew it up and walked on purple crayon land
Till you came too.
You come around again
You come around again
You come around again
Yesterday I watched our children pick up our guitars
They grabbed them by the tail, and man, they swung
They pulled the music from the air and made it all their own
Soon they will recruit that baby drummer
So who’s to say that this is it, or this is something new
I think you know I never left the ball
I left the mark, I left the shoe, and then I hid behind the curtain watching you.
You looked so sad
But what could I have done?
The story made me run
But I came around again.
Nerissa Nields
May 16,2011
©2011 Peter Quince Publishing
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