Deep Deep Down Heart - Mary Chapin Carpenter

How do you know what you know

because you’ve seen it with your eyes?

How do you know where to go,

how to identify your guides?

How do you see what was next

In your palm or a show of cards?

How do you learn to detect

The outlines of a scar?

Now the sky holds the night,

As the trees hold the shade.

And the road holds the map

Of every journey I’ve made.

And the clouds hold the sigh

Of the wind and the rain

In my deep, deep down heart…

My deep, deep down heart.

Now these wheels go so fast

There is nothing here to hold;

I keep pushing back the past

So that the future can unfold.

I guess the best of my mistakes

Show me all that I don’t know.

But this strange kind of ache

Never seems to let me go.

And the sky holds the night,

And the trees hold the shade,

And the stars hold the light

That’s travelled all this way.

But who holds my hand

So I am not afraid

In my deep, deep down heart

My deep, deep down heart?

I thought I heard my name

Walking late tonight

From the porch after the rain

In this rowing down the light.

There was no one standing there

Beyond the lantern’s cast,

But just voices in the air

But just questions that ask,

How the sky holds the night?

How the trees hold the shade?

How your sleep holds your dreams

Till they shake you awake?

And how love holds you up

And then to chooses to break

Your deep, deep down heart…

Your deep, deep down heart?