Eric Erdman

Lyrics

FSF "Take Wing"


The clang of the school bell throughout Belle Glade might as well be silence
That 6 year old renegade pays it no mind
The lunch that Terry's momma made him traded to his clients
for cigarettes, 3 at a time

Pockets his take, ducks through the train yard, and just like that he's gone
To get trapped inside, on a day like today, would drive him insane
There's a smell of adventure, and the hope that McCree let's him tag along
the everglades are calling Terry's name


A red headed hawk is off the limb and free
He's part of the wind that lifts him up
It never tells him where he should or shouldn't be
he still knows he must

Take Wing
Take Wing
over the Okeechobee
Take Wing


His small hands now under water, still as a stone
patiently keeping calm til the time is right
Then he strikes like summer lightning, just how he was shown
never felt so alive


There's a red headed hawk is off the limb and free
He's part of the wind that lifts him up
It never tells him where he should or shouldn't be
he still knows he must


Take Wing
Take Wing
over the Okeechobee
Take Wing

(written by Eric Erdman, based on the novel "Summer Lightning" by Judith Richards, as his contribution to TRIO.....see details here: http://shari-smith.com/trio-2018/ )