When the Bow Is Pulled - Geoff Bartley

Here's a tape that I made in a motel

and a notebook that I kept off and on

here's a picture of me with a rubber nose

and another one of you as a boy

You're as tall as I am already

whatever happened to all those years?

I don't have enough souvenirs...

[Chorus]
When the bow is pulled...
and the arrow flies...
and a father's love...
leaps in my eyes...

Here's a jacket I've been saving in the attic for you
and a stone from that cave beneath the hill
here's a shoebox of my worn-out harmonicas
and a top from that zoo in Saint Paul
Sometimes I see your eyes in my mirror
and I drift out where the waters are deep
everything I will keep...

[Repeat Chorus]

I never really understood what I was doing
and I'm still not quite sure how I feel
miracle boy will you take after me
you just couldn't be more real
So remember these bow and arrow days
they will seem pretty good later on
like the day when you were born...

[Repeat Chorus]

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