Colorado Sandstorm Music Song Lyrics: You Were the Road

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Colorado Sandstorm Music

You Were the Road

Colorado Sandstorm Music, B.M.I.

chorus	You were the bird that sang up the sun
	You were the rock that made the river run
	You were the tide that taught the ocean to foam
	You Were the Road that led me home

1.	Without your shoulder to lean on
	I don't stand as tall
	Without your hand to guide me
	I'm afraid that I will fall

chorus

2.	Without your arms to hold me
	I can't sleep for the cold
	Without you eyes to see me
	The mirror, oh the mirror says I'm old

bridge	Independence — that's for youngsters
	It means loneliness to me
	I lost the grace of your loving embrace
	Now I don't know who to be

chorus

coda	You Were the Road that led me home
	You Were the Road — the road that led me home

"I never got along with my father. When I cleaned out my mother's house, I found a treasure: a collection of hundreds of letters my father sent home from Europe, when he was in the Army during WW II. Most of his letters were in poem form. I spent most of a year scanning, transcribing and footnoting a book of his letters. In the process, I got to know a side of him I never saw, and I saw the man my mother loved. This is a love song to him, from her.

"But, this song was about loss as well as love. Someone told me to make it present tense, more positive, and change 'youngsters' to a word that includes all ages. I wrote You Are the Road."
— San