From the recording Tall Tree
This is a big old world and it can make a girl feel small and insignificant, even more, now, for my daughters than when I was young. I wrote this for my girls, but I see a lot of the men nodding their heads to these words, too!
Lyrics
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A crazy, crazy horse lives inside of me
She's mostly blue, sometimes she's gray
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She's got red paint splattered here and there
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And rainbow feathers tied in her hair
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She goes buck and snort all around my ribs
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Sayin' "Don't you forget who you really is!"
She tells me,
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you are the whirlwind and the softest of sighs
You are good, you are smart, you are strong, you are wise
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You are pinion smoke and snowflakes in a starry sky
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You are wild and never tame and you know you are right
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You are a seed in the earth, you are a song on the wind
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You drink your whiskey from a teacup running over at the brim
Her heart is made of sky where songbirds fly
Lightning and Thunder live behind her eyes
When I can't remember who I'm s'posed to be
I look into the mirror and she's looking back at me
She goes buck and snort all around my ribs
Sayin' "Don't you forget, who you really is!"
She tells me
You are the smallest flower on the highest peak
You are the secret on the morning breeze
You are the oak that bends, you are the Eagles flight
You are leather and stone and a sweet lover in the night
You are young, you are old, you are God's perfect prize
You are diamonds, you are pearls, you are danger in disguise
This old world can get the best of a girl
Make you feel like the swine, instead of the pearl
When I can't remember who I'm s'posed to be
I look into the mirror and she's looking back at me
And she goes buck and snort all around my ribs
Sayin' "Don't you forget who you really is!"
A crazy, crazy horse lives inside of me
She's mostly blue, sometimes she's gray
She's got red paint splattered here and there
And rainbow feathers tied in her hair
She goes buck and snort all around my ribs
Sayin' "Don't you forget who you really is!"