Where Has The Spirit Gone
I drive down the highway,
Wondering if this desert looks the same,
As it did two hundred and fifty years ago,
Where the belief of freedom was still strong.
I look around this land I love today,
And I just can’t help but ask
Where has the spirit gone?
Where has the spirit gone? The
heart that kept us strong.
The dream that built this shining land
Where has the spirit gone?
The land is still the same,
The sky still wide and blue.
But does the way of the land still carry on,
The way our fathers built?
Do we still believe in people?
Do we still stand as one?
The promise of democracy
Is it fading with the sun?
Where has the spirit gone?
Where has the spirit gone?
The heart that kept us strong.
The dream that built this shining land
Where has the spirit gone?
We the people, hand in hand
Can we still understand?
The faith, the fire, the common song
Where, oh where, has the spirit gone?
Where has the spirit gone?
The heart that carried on.
Maybe it’s waiting to be reborn
Oh, spirit of the land, come home.
Come home, come home,
Oh, spirit of the land, come home.
Mary Alice Park
Love wears no clock no chain to the agesIt danced with the stars leaped off written pages
Conquered the endless in the blink of a spark
Hiding its whispers in Mary Alice park
The trains keep rolling the iron’s steady hum
Trees trade their secrets with the breeze as it runs
Flowers burst open in a radiant arc
All under the gaze of Mary Alice park
My love knows no limit no boundary no thread
It spans beyond lifetimes where souls have once fled
It’s cradled eternal in whispers above
In the heart of forever in the heart of love
It’s etched in the stones weathered with grace
It dances in shadows the sun couldn’t erase
The echoes of laughter the secrets in the dark
All sing the refrain of Mary Alice park
Oh time can stand still or run wild through my days
But love is the constant blazing through the haze
It rises unyielding unbroken unmarked
A fire unending in Mary Alice park
My love knows no limit no boundary no thread
It spans beyond lifetimes where souls have once fled
It’s cradled eternal in whispers above
In the heart of forever in the heart of love