'Wooden Bridge' from Henning Kvitnes fantastic album Heartland (1999)
Great americana by this Norwegian artist.
I love the smell of your coffee in the morning
and the smell of our daughter's hair
and I know the love we share
is something true and rare
It is nothing we take for granted
it took us years to come this far
so now my wishes go to someone else when I see a shooting star
Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from
and a cool clear stream running west
let me watch the birds catch their supper
to take home to their nursery-nests
so many things I thought I wanted
so few I really need
so many years been wasted working for my greed
I love to walk on sunny summer mornings
when the air's still cool and clear
up to that crag about a mile from our house
where I just sit and stare out over the valley
across the fields and across the fjord
I just practice doing nothing and it never makes me bored
Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from
and a cool clear stream running west
let me watch the birds catch their supper
to take home to their nursery-nests
so many things I thought I wanted
so few I really need
so many years been wasted working for my greed
I will head on for tomorrow leave these yesterdays behind
some only gave us sorrow but quite a few were just fine
Sometimes I even thought that a good life
could be from heaven sent
cause I could not know that life was just
those days that came and went.
Give me an old wooden bridge to fish from
and a cool clear stream running west
let me watch the birds catch their supper
to take home to their nursery-nests
so many things I thought I wanted
so few I really need
so many years been wasted working for my greed
