Good Fortune - Joe Henry

I will come back for my things

Then I’ll go the way I came

Back down your crooked steps two at a time;

And to the morning sun

I will call as I run

As if it waited for me now to shine

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you —

To leave me with no love I might return

I know where I could go

And work awhile, you never know

The change might be enough to set me free;

I could leave tonight

And discover I was right

But now freer than I ever chose to be

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you —

To leave me with no love I might return

I climb right in beside

The first offer of a ride

That’s warmer than all that I leave behind;

I shake my collar free

And hold myself against my knee

And pray tonight’s the peaceful, dreamless kind

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you —

To leave me with no love I might return

This is my good fortune I’ll love