Oh, the sun rolls down, big as a miracle
And fades from the Midwest Sky
And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze

As if to say goodbye
Oh, my grandfather stood right here as a younger man
In nineteen and forty three

And with the sweat and his tears, the rain and the years
He grew life from the soil and seed


Oh I'm goin' down to the dreaming fields
But what will be my harvest now
Where every tear that falls on a memory

Feels like rain on the rusted plow
Rain on the rusted plow


And these fields they dream of wheat in the summertime
Grandchildren running free
And the bales of hay at the end of the day

And the scarecrow that just scared me

Now the houses they grow like weeds in a flower bed



This morning the silo fell

Seems the only way a man can live off the land these days
Is to buy and sell


So I'm goin' down to the dreaming fields
But what will be my harvest now
Where every tear that falls on a memory

Feels like rain on the rusted plow
Rain on the rusted plow


Like the rain on the roof on the porch by the kitchen
Where as my grandmother sings, I can hear if I listen
Running down, running down to the end of the world I loved

This will be my harvest now

And the sun rolls down, big as a miracle

And fades in the Midwest sky
And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze
As if to say goodbye

As if to say goodbye