Patchwork Quilt (Live at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, Nc, 8/9/2003)

I never knew you, but then who really did?

If you were at all like me, you managed to keep yourself hid

A patchwork quilt of life, memories embroidered on your soul

So please forgive me for putting you in my song

But the spirit she moves me, in fact she pushes me along

It's a patchwork quilt of life

Can't stop the river, just let it roll

We were at Jones Beach when we got the word

Saddest sound that I'd ever heard

The bluest note nobody could play

The ravens sang with us that night on the stage

Tears of sadness, tears of rage

But nobody spoke, we all felt old and in the way

So walk beside me or above me, I don't know

These days it sure seems I'm lost wherever I go

"God, how could you?" I heard somebody say

What do we do with our lives now anyway

Now that our North Star can no longer be found

But there's a banjo moon in a tie-dyed sky

Hippies dance and babies cry

Church bells ring as a silver-haired angel looks down

And the blood of his music runs through the veins of our guitars

Bright lights, dark star

I never knew you, but then who really did?

If you were at all like me, you managed to keep yourself hid