The Ways Of Life

from Our Family by Mark McGuire

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Wait a while,
don't hit the road just yet
with the way this night is pouring down..

I'll sing for you
I sing for the ways
and a way to go
I sing so that all the world
will know that you aint done wrong

I'll stay for a while
I don't know where else I would go
but I'll keep listening for her call..

I'd like you to see
all your relatives living well
I'd like to believe
that the world will remember them
I'd like for you to see
all your children together again
We'll have to wait and see
what the future has stored away..
We'll have to wait and see..

What's a girl like you
doing in a world like this?
What's a starry girl like you
doing in a world like this?

We'll have to wait and see..

The ways of life
we lost the way a long time ago
so I wander back to see where
we went wrong
The ways of life
a sacred path in a working world
I wander back to see where
we went wrong

I'm lost at sea
I lost you
I lost the way back
Where'd you go?
Then you came to lift me up
to your place in the clouds
but now I'm back on the ground..
What do I have to do?
What do I have to say girl?
To spend my life with you..
What are you tryna say girl?
What are you tryna do?
What are we tryna save here?
What do we have to lose?
What do you have to laugh about?
What are you smiling for?
What do you have to dream about?
What are you living for?
What will we tell our children
when the forests have all been burned
What will we tell our children?
What do you dream of?
What is the meaning of all of this?
What do you dream of?
Are we imagining all of this?
What do you dream of?
Why do you speak of those things
you know nothing of?
What do you dream of?
and how can you laugh at those things
that hurt so much?
What are you living for?

The ways of life
I wandered back down the only road
I wandered back to see where
we went wrong
The ways of life
A sacred path in a working world
I wander back to see where
we went wrong..

So what are you living for?

These ways of life..

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from Our Family, released March 5, 2021

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