Silver Lining

Lyrics- The Honey Dewdrops Silver Lining

The Honey Dewdrops - One Kind Word

My head is cold like my hands and feet I’m looking around for something to eat I’ve got time got nowhere to go Broke down here close to the bone

I don’t want everything I see I just want the little bit you promised me

Silver spoon gold diamond ring New leather shoes and finery I don’t want what you gave to me Promissory notes and worthless things

What I got I can’t use When I get lonely over you

I don’t want everything I see I just want the little bit you promised me

I don’t want for what I need A heart that beats and lungs to breathe Ear to the ground all the time For one kind word that’s mine all mine

One kind word I’ve waited for Just your love and nothing more

I don’t want everything I see I just want the little bit you promised me The Honey Dewdrops - Hills of My Home

Hills of my home I see so clearly Running from down south and way up north Committed now to my memory Hills of my home ain’t there no more

Machines have sat atop the mountains What they did we allowed them to do We closed our eyes all the while Now there’s nothing left in our view

Did we care for what was given us? Are we better off than before? How long can this crop sustain us? In the end where will we have to turn?

You say we’ve been put to the purpose What we gave gone on to the greater good But the giving was never about us The greater good was never for the greater good

And if there’s money ‘neath the ground I never seen it They took everything we ever had The soil and the streams above the coalfields Are but a scar now upon a broken land

Did we care for what was given us? Are we better off than before? How long can this crop sustain us? In the end where will we have to turn? The Honey Dewdrops - No More Trouble

Bad news baby at quarter to 2 Woke up in a sweat at quarter to 2 Was a world of trouble coming for you Worry worry baby at quarter to 2

Deep night voices at half past 3 Were clear as the day at half past 3 Said happiness grows when you sow good seeds Bound to reap what you sow at half past 3

Sow good seeds with love through and through No more trouble will bother you

Way down in a dream at 5 to 4 Message from your muse at 5 to 4 Said love don’t keep got to give it to the world Let go of your love at 5 to 4

Early in the morning at 5:22 Look yourself over at 5:22 Make up your heart so kind and true Don’t wait one minute more at 5:22

Sow good seeds, with love through and through No more trouble will bother you The Honey Dewdrops - Let Me Sing

Let me sing with my own voice Make my words clear and true Give me time ‘til my song is through Let me sing let me sing

Let me work with my own hands Through the day and all night too Give me time ‘til my work is through Let me work let me work

Let me love like a wild river runs Strong and free from God’s own hand Give me time ‘til I love like that Let me love let me love

Let me go and make me free Break the chains that wrap me ‘round Give me time ‘til I get where I’m bound Let me go let me go

Let me sing with my own voice Make my words clear and true Give me time ‘til my song is through Let me sing let me sing The Honey Dewdrops - Catawba (Instrumental) The Honey Dewdrops - Silver Lining

All the long nights I spent with you Wishing that the morning Would wait off on our warning And lay back in the east Slow as a slow heart beat Let us lay where we lie Let us alone you and I

All the moonless nights crept up on us We wanted for the dawn To hurry and come on And rush up in between us Draw a line be the end of The dark over you and me The dark don’t let you be

Silver lining You’re my silver lining When it don’t look good I’m always finding You’re my silver lining

I can see the clouds for what they are Out of my control Real but not to hold Shifting in the sky Laying low and flying high Showing where the colors hide In the space between you and I

Silver lining You’re my silver lining When it don’t look good I’m always finding You’re my silver lining The Honey Dewdrops - Happiness

What do I know? About the shape I’m in All I know is what I don’t Want to do again

And what I don’t know Could fill a book That goes on and on Down roads I never took

To what is good And fine and true What I could never Ever hold on to

And happiness ain’t happiness It’s a compromise More or less I’m more at peace being reckless

And happiness has got nothing to do with happiness What am I? The passing kind A change in the weather Could change my mind

Holding on Is hard I know It’s so much harder Than letting go

Of what is good And fine and true All them things I could Never hold on to

And happiness ain’t happiness It’s a compromise More or less I’m more at peace being reckless And happiness has got nothing to do with happiness

What I want I could never face I could never get close To hope or love or grace To hell with the good And fine and true All them things I could never get close to

And happiness ain’t happiness It’s a compromise More or less I’m more at peace being reckless And happiness has got nothing to do with happiness The Honey Dewdrops - Together Tied

The country inn motel In Wadena, Minnesota Has a view of highway 10 You can watch the tractor-trailers

The rails run by the road And there’s 19 trains a night And I think about you brother As they go rolling by

A thousand miles or more Can’t fade my memory And this familiar feeling Never gets out of me

Home like water collects us by and by And reaches over distance To hold us together tied

Many times I’ve heard What I know is not true That home is just a place You can never get back to

And what is home my brother? If not love and you and me If not a river between us Running restlessly

Home is in the leaving The last words around the table The last sun in the evening The last time we were together

Home like water collects us by and by And reaches over distance To hold us together tied The Honey Dewdrops - It’s Hard To Pray

It’s hard to pray it’s hard to pray It’s hard to keep on asking When the answer don’t come When wishes don’t come true When mercy don’t take shape When my restless soul is waiting It’s hard to pray

All the same I pray for rain Feel like wildfires follow me And I cannot get away All the way from the Pamlico Out to Los Alamos I pray for rain over many miles But all I see is smoke

Still I pray I pray for repair For the damage done beyond control By floods and hurricanes Water has its way Of rearranging things Breaking levees, breaking trees Breaking up families

Even so I say a prayer For the baby girl and her mama too Who I met the other day At 10 months and 17 They made a pretty pair I put two dollars in their can It was all I had to spare

In spite of it all I still pray With a wandering whispering tiny sound For the wind to blow away They carry far They settle near I let my words go where they will When I say a prayer

Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a-breaking in my soul

Oh where are our dear fathers? Oh where are our dear fathers? They are down in the valley a-praying Day is a-breaking in my soul

Oh where are our dear mothers? Oh where are our dear mothers? They have gone to heaven a-shouting Day is a-breaking in my soul

Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Bright morning stars are rising Day is a-breaking in my soul