Something Small - Joan Shelley

It’s a small town, it doesn’t ask for much

broken down and always building back up

something small, something to shine the lights on

for those passing cars

the hopeful words they’ve drawn

He’s a young man, light load on his chest

single again, he follows a dream to the west

to a town nearby, a hand on his back

and her haunting eyes

and a clear voice whispering

It’s all laid out in front for you to take it

It’s all laid out in front for you to take it

You stoke the fire, holding onto the light

Folding the layers and bending them in to shape

with a pounding iron, a heat that draws the moths out

from their holding walls

to your humble home they come

It’s all laid out in front for you to take it

it’s all laid out in front for you to take it…

It’s a small town, it doesn’t ask for much