Lyrics - Hammer And A Nail by Indigo Girls

Author:
Indigo
Girls
Album title:
Nomads.
Indians.
Saints
Hammer and a
Nail------ --- - ----(
Emily
Saliers)
Clearing webs from the hovel
A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep,
I always do.
I see my fate on the surface
I look a lot like
Narcissus
A dark aabyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.
I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes.
Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now
I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts
My life is part of the global life
I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When
I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
If
I have a care in the world
I have a gift to bring.
Lyrics reprinted
WP/
FYC by
Trip
N.
Gregory
Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by
Doug
Henkle

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