The Kite

Lyrics

Stopped at the dime store Bought a kite and some string She drove in the park, sat in a swing And remembered how this used to be She and her momma's delight They'd run barefooted, hold hands and twirl Sit in the grass and talk girl to girl Shared their heartaches And the cares in their world And write them on the back of a kite The two would start running Throw it up in the air Slowly the breeze Would lift up their prayer And they would fly their hurts up to heaven And sail their sorrows to the sky Watch the wind carry their worries Stand there and wave them goodbye Then after a while, momma would tell her That everything would be alright 'Cause Jesus had read their letter Written on the back of a kite She found a park bench, sat there alone Seven months pregnant With a child of her own She missed her momma And the love they had known As her heart trickled out of her eyes So many things she wished she'd have said Unanswered questions danced in her head The ink had run from the tears she had shed That fell on the back of the kite She started running threw it up in the air Slowly the breeze lifted up her prayer And then she blew her hurts up to heaven And sailed her sorrows to the sky Watch the wind carry her worries Stood there and wave them goodbye Thought she'd heard momma tell her That everything would be alright 'Cause Jesus had read her letter Written on the back of a kite Oh, oh... Stopped at the dime store Bought a kite and some string She drove in the park, sat in a swing