I’ve been crashed out on the beach

 

Just beyond the water’s reach

 

Dreaming that it washes me away

 

I can hear it rolling in

 

And whispering away again

 

It gets a little closer every day

 

There’s a story I was told

 

When I was just a few days old

 

Of a beggar born to be a king

 

He cursed the best and blessed the meek

 

But from what I’ve seen the weak

 

Don’t inherit much of anything

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

In the garden grows a gun

 

And a rose that cuts as deep as any thorn

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

Take a teaspoon or a ton

 

I’ve been running since the day that I was born

 

I give as much as I can take

 

Bend as much as I can break

 

Don’t mistake the forest for the pines

 

Breathe the breath that’s given me

 

Carve myself a wishing tree

 

Rake the coals and read between the lines

 

I do my best to sing the song

 

The ones before me passed along

 

Remember every note that I forget

 

I’ll try to sing it like I did

 

Back when I was just a kid

 

Change the words and tune as I see fit

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

All the damage that is done

 

Leaves a broken bath like cattle in the corn

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

Guess I’m not the only one

 

Who’s been running since the day that I was born

 

I’ve been running from the day

 

From time to time my knees might bend

 

I light a candle now and then

 

But mostly I believe in what I see

 

All the good books that we read

 

Won’t save us from what lies ahead

 

And what we leave behind won’t set us free

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

I will stare into the sun

 

Until the night will shine as bright as any morn

 

Caulder Run, Caulder Run

 

Catches up with everyone

 

Keeps us running from the day the we are born

 

Keeps us running from the day